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befleaing

befleaing is the present participle and gerund of beflea.

Meaning of beflea

Verb

beflea (third-person singular simple present befleas, present participle befleaing, simple past and past participle befleaed)

  1. (transitive) To pester, as fleas do.
    • One of those bores
      Who beflea'd with bad verses poor Louis Quatorze.1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics

Questions about befleaing

What is befleaing the present participle and gerund of?
Befleaing is the present participle and gerund of beflea.

Words near befleaing in the dictionary

  1. beflayed
  2. beflaying
  3. beflays
  4. beflea
  5. befleaed
  6. befleaing
  7. befleas
  8. befleck
  9. beflecked
  10. beflecking
  11. beflecks

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