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befleck

/bɪˈflɛk/

befleck verb: to cover with small spots or flecks.

Verb

befleck (third-person singular simple present beflecks, present participle beflecking, simple past and past participle beflecked)

  1. (poetic) to cover with small spots or flecks
    • The world is filled with changeful light,
      The clouds befleck the sky,
      And o’er the fields, to harvest white,
      The trooping shadows fly.1854, Jonathan Freke Slingsby, “A Slingsby Wedding, and the Doings Thereat”, in The Dublin University Magazine, A Literary and Political Journal, volume 44
    • I am not of those Fairies seen
      Tripping by moonlight on the green,
      Whose dewdrop bumpers, nightly poured,
      Befleck the mushroom’s virgin board,
      […]1867, James Russell Lowell, “Hob Gobbling’s Song”, in Our Young Folks, volume 3

Forms of befleck

third-person singular presentbeflecks
present participlebeflecking
past participlebeflecked
pastbeflecked

Origin of befleck

From be- + fleck.

Words that rhyme with befleck

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Questions about befleck

What does befleck mean?
Befleck means to cover with small spots or flecks.
What part of speech is befleck?
Befleck is a verb.
How do you pronounce befleck?
Befleck is pronounced /bɪˈflɛk/.
What is the past tense of befleck?
The past tense of befleck is beflecked.

Words near befleck in the dictionary

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

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