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beflag

Syllables: be·flagUK/bɪˈflæɡ/US/biˈflæɡ/

beflag verb: to decorate with a flag or flags; to hang a flag or flags on.

Verb

beflag (third-person singular simple present beflags, present participle beflagging, simple past and past participle beflagged)

  1. (transitive) To decorate with a flag or flags; to hang a flag or flags on.
    • Apart from the beflagging of streets and the organisation of processions and festivities, the idea was to make the security arrangements so prodigious and so inconvenient that the extreme importance of the Marshal’s person would be forcibly impressed upon the minds of the people of Budapest.1949, Derek Kartun, chapter 9, in Tito’s Plot against Europe, London: Lawrence & Wishart, page 62
    • What she was experiencing was an absence of sounds in general, not my own peculiar distinction of noises no longer heard: the screeching of pulley-wheels as rainyday washings rose to beflag the ceiling; the thump of doors closing […]1992, Jeff Torrington, chapter 14, in Swing Hammer Swing!, New York: Harcourt Brace, page 124

Forms of beflag

third-person singular presentbeflags
present participlebeflagging
past participlebeflagged
pastbeflagged

Origin of beflag

From be- + flag.

Words that rhyme with beflag

39 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about beflag

What does beflag mean?
Beflag means to decorate with a flag or flags; to hang a flag or flags on.
What part of speech is beflag?
Beflag is a verb.
How do you pronounce beflag?
Beflag is pronounced /bɪˈflæɡ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of beflag?
The past tense of beflag is beflagged.

Words near beflag in the dictionary

  1. befittest
  2. befitteth
  3. befitting
  4. befittingly
  5. befittingness
  6. beflag
  7. beflagged
  8. beflagging
  9. beflags
  10. beflain
  11. beflake

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