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befingering

befingering is the present participle and gerund 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 befingering

What is befingering the present participle and gerund of?
Befingering is the present participle and gerund of befinger.

Words near befingering in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: befingering (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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