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beleap

beleap verb: to leap upon; cover.

Verb

beleap (third-person singular simple present beleaps, present participle beleaping, simple past and past participle beleapt or beleaped)

  1. (UK, ambitransitive, dialectal) To leap upon; cover.

Forms of beleap

third-person singular presentbeleaps
present participlebeleaping
past participlebeleapt
pastbeleapt
past participlebeleaped
pastbeleaped
alternative formbeleip
alternative formbyleip

Origin of beleap

From be- (“at, on”) + leap.

Questions about beleap

What does beleap mean?
Beleap means to leap upon; cover.
What part of speech is beleap?
Beleap is a verb.
What is the past tense of beleap?
The past tense of beleap is beleapt.

Words near beleap in the dictionary

  1. beleaguers
  2. beleagure
  3. beleagured
  4. beleagures
  5. beleaguring
  6. beleap
  7. beleaped
  8. beleaping
  9. beleaps
  10. beleapt
  11. belearn

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