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beflee

beflee verb: to flee from; flee; avoid; shun.

Verb

beflee (third-person singular simple present beflees, present participle befleeing, simple past and past participle befled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To flee from; flee; avoid; shun.

Forms of beflee

third-person singular presentbeflees
present participlebefleeing
past participlebefled
pastbefled

Origin of beflee

From Middle English biflen, bifleon, from Old English beflēon (“to flee from, flee, escape, avoid”), equivalent to be- + flee.

Questions about beflee

What does beflee mean?
Beflee means to flee from; flee; avoid; shun.
What part of speech is beflee?
Beflee is a verb.
What is the past tense of beflee?
The past tense of beflee is befled.

Words near beflee in the dictionary

  1. befleck
  2. beflecked
  3. beflecking
  4. beflecks
  5. befled
  6. beflee
  7. befleeing
  8. beflees
  9. beflew
  10. beflies
  11. beflirt

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