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beskirt

beskirt verb: to border; lie on the outskirts of.

Verb

beskirt (third-person singular simple present beskirts, present participle beskirting, simple past and past participle beskirted)

  1. (transitive) To border; lie on the outskirts of.
    • Pitrodie's woods beskirt the feet Of heath-clad Ben-na-chie, And through their shade the breezes fleet, And hum from tree to tree.1892, J.Y. Mather, Poems

Forms of beskirt

third-person singular presentbeskirts
present participlebeskirting
past participlebeskirted
pastbeskirted

Origin of beskirt

From be- + skirt.

Questions about beskirt

What does beskirt mean?
Beskirt means to border; lie on the outskirts of.
What part of speech is beskirt?
Beskirt is a verb.
What is the past tense of beskirt?
The past tense of beskirt is beskirted.

Words near beskirt in the dictionary

  1. besit
  2. besits
  3. besitten
  4. besitting
  5. Beskids
  6. beskirt
  7. beskirted
  8. beskirting
  9. beskirts
  10. beskozyrka
  11. beskozyrkas

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