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behang

behang verb: to hang round or about, as ornament or embellishment; suspend; drape.

Verb

behang (third-person singular simple present behangs, present participle behanging, simple past and past participle behung)

  1. (transitive) To hang round or about, as ornament or embellishment; suspend; drape.
    • Now seven times had frosty-bearded Winter covered both herbs and flowers with snow, and behung the trees with crystal icicles, since the unfortunate St. George beheld the cheerful light of heaven, but lived obscure in a dismal dungeon, […]1824, Richard Johnson, The renowned history of the seven champions of Christendom
    • And with rich clusters (hid among / The leaves) her temples I behung: […]1890, Robert Herrick, William Carew Hazlitt, Hesperides

Forms of behang

third-person singular presentbehangs
present participlebehanging
past participlebehung
pastbehung

Origin of behang

From Middle English *behangen, behongen, bihangien, bihengen, from Old English behōn (“to hang round”), equivalent to be- + hang. Cognate with Dutch behangen (“to decorate”), German behängen (“to hang, drape, decorate”).

Words formed from behang

Questions about behang

What does behang mean?
Behang means to hang round or about, as ornament or embellishment; suspend; drape.
What part of speech is behang?
Behang is a verb.
What is the past tense of behang?
The past tense of behang is behung.

Words near behang in the dictionary

  1. behand
  2. behandle
  3. behandled
  4. behandles
  5. behandling
  6. behang
  7. behanging
  8. behangs
  9. Behans
  10. behap
  11. behapped

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