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beflagging

beflagging is the present participle and gerund of beflag.

Meaning of beflag

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

Questions about beflagging

What is beflagging the present participle and gerund of?
Beflagging is the present participle and gerund of beflag.

Words near beflagging in the dictionary

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

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