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umbeclap

umbeclap verb: to embrace; enclose.

Verb

umbeclap (third-person singular simple present umbeclaps, present participle umbeclapping, simple past and past participle umbeclapped)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To embrace; enclose.

Forms of umbeclap

third-person singular presentumbeclaps
present participleumbeclapping
past participleumbeclapped
pastumbeclapped
alternative formumbeclappe
alternative formumbe-clappe

Origin of umbeclap

From Middle English umbeclappen. By surface analysis, umbe- + clap, or um- + beclap.

Questions about umbeclap

What does umbeclap mean?
Umbeclap means to embrace; enclose.
What part of speech is umbeclap?
Umbeclap is a verb.
What is the past tense of umbeclap?
The past tense of umbeclap is umbeclapped.

Words near umbeclap in the dictionary

  1. Umbaughs
  2. UMBC
  3. umbe-
  4. umbecast
  5. umbecasting
  6. umbeclap
  7. umbedraw
  8. umbedrawing
  9. umbego
  10. umbegoing
  11. umbegrip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: umbeclap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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