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beflake

beflake verb: to take off an external layer; skin in thin flakes.

Verb

beflake (third-person singular simple present beflakes, present participle beflaking, simple past and past participle beflaked)

  1. (transitive) To take off an external layer; skin in thin flakes.
  2. (transitive) To deck or cover with or as with flakes.
    • For already close at hand the Argive host in full array marches and scours along, and the whitening foam beflakes the plain with drops from the deep breath of the steeds.1908, Aeschylus, Thomas George Tucker, The Seven against Thebes
    • She moved to crouch motionless beside a chimney, while the couple she had just detected materialized in a slow descent out of the beflaked air to another roof only half a block away.2009, Fred Saberhagen, An Old Friend of the Family

Forms of beflake

third-person singular presentbeflakes
present participlebeflaking
past participlebeflaked
pastbeflaked

Origin of beflake

From be- + flake.

Questions about beflake

What does beflake mean?
Beflake means to take off an external layer; skin in thin flakes.
What part of speech is beflake?
Beflake is a verb.
What is the past tense of beflake?
The past tense of beflake is beflaked.

Words near beflake in the dictionary

  1. beflag
  2. beflagged
  3. beflagging
  4. beflags
  5. beflain
  6. beflake
  7. beflapped
  8. beflatter
  9. beflay
  10. beflayed
  11. beflaying

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