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befingered

befingered is the simple past and past participle of befinger.

Meaning of befinger

Verb

befinger (third-person singular simple present befingers, present participle befingering, simple past and past participle befingered)

  1. (transitive) To finger all over.
    • Unfortunately, lack of scientific training on the part of medical attendants who probe and befinger wounds without proper antiseptic precautions is met with too often.1901, Proceedings of The... Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons ...

Questions about befingered

What is befingered the simple past and past participle of?
Befingered is the simple past and past participle of befinger.

Words near befingered in the dictionary

  1. befilths
  2. befind
  3. befinding
  4. befinds
  5. befinger
  6. befingered
  7. befingering
  8. befingers
  9. befinned
  10. befiperide
  11. befiradol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: befingered (page history and authors); befinger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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