Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to befringe
Participle: befringed
Gerund: befringing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | befringe |
| you | befringe |
| he;she;it | befringes |
| we | befringe |
| you | befringe |
| they | befringe |
Perfect
| I | have befringed |
| you | have befringed |
| he;she;it | has befringed |
| we | have befringed |
| you | have befringed |
| they | have befringed |
Past
| I | befringed |
| you | befringed |
| he;she;it | befringed |
| we | befringed |
| you | befringed |
| they | befringed |
Pluperfect
| I | had befringed |
| you | had befringed |
| he;she;it | had befringed |
| we | had befringed |
| you | had befringed |
| they | had befringed |
Future
| I | will befringe |
| you | will befringe |
| he;she;it | will befringe |
| we | will befringe |
| you | will befringe |
| they | will befringe |
Future Perfect
| I | will have befringed |
| you | will have befringed |
| he;she;it | will have befringed |
| we | will have befringed |
| you | will have befringed |
| they | will have befringed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | befringe |
| you | befringe |
| he;she;it | befringe |
| we | befringe |
| you | befringe |
| they | befringe |
Perfect
| I | have befringed |
| you | have befringed |
| he;she;it | have befringed |
| we | have befringed |
| you | have befringed |
| they | have befringed |
Imperfect
| I | befringed |
| you | befringed |
| he;she;it | befringed |
| we | befringed |
| you | befringed |
| they | befringed |
Pluperfect
| I | had befringed |
| you | had befringed |
| he;she;it | had befringed |
| we | had befringed |
| you | had befringed |
| they | had befringed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would befringe |
| you | would befringe |
| he;she;it | would befringe |
| we | would befringe |
| you | would befringe |
| they | would befringe |
Perfect
| I | would have befringed |
| you | would have befringed |
| he;she;it | would have befringed |
| we | would have befringed |
| you | would have befringed |
| they | would have befringed |
Imperative
| you | befringe |
| we | Let's befringe |
| you | befringe |
Verbs conjugated like 'befringe'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'befringe'
becringe,
refringe,
befinger,
berine,
besinge,
enfringe,
fringe,
infringe,
abstringe,
astringe,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From be- (“on, at, upon”) + fringe.
Sample Sentences
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[...] women themselves went in armour, (having a brave lasse like another Penthesilea for their leader, so befringed with gold, that they called her Golden-foot) riding astride like men [...] [1639, Thomas Fuller, chapter 27, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, page 78:]
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And when I flatter, let my dirty leaves
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(Like Journals, Odes, and such forgotten things
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As Eusden, Philips, Settle, writ of Kings)
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Cloath spice, line trunks, or flutt’ring in a row,
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Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Sohoe. [1737, Alexander Pope, The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated, London: T. Cooper, page 23:]
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1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan: Cantos IX.—X.—XI., London: John Hunt, Canto 10, stanza 29, p. 32,
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… each dress he sported,
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Which set the beauty off in which he glowed,
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As purple clouds befringe the sun …
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[…] during a year or more, Gentleman Brown’s ship was to be seen, for many days on end, hovering off an islet befringed with green upon azure, with the dark dot of the mission-house on a white beach […] [1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 41, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 415:]