Meaning

6 senses

  1. (transitive)To wrap around; enclose; encircle; surround.

  2. (transitive)To clip around or about (the edges of); crop.

    beclip a photograph

  3. (obsolete, transitive)To fold in the arms; embrace; clasp.

  4. (obsolete, transitive)To include; comprise; comprehend; contain.

  5. (obsolete, transitive)To lay hold of; seize upon; grip; catch; overtake.

  6. (obsolete, transitive)To curdle (milk).

Origin

From Middle English beclippen, from Old English beclyppan (“to clip, clasp, embrace, enfol

From Middle English beclippen, from Old English beclyppan (“to clip, clasp, embrace, enfold”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”) + *klumpijaną (“to hold, clench”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“to hold, clench”), equivalent to be- + clip. Compare also Middle English umbeclippen (“to embrace”). See also umbeclip.

From be- + clip.

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Forms

beclips, beclipping, beclipped, beclipped
Base formbeclip · to beclip
3rd person singularbeclips
Present participlebeclipping
Past simplebeclipped
Past participlebeclipped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybeclip
he, she, itbeclips

Past simpleLesson

all personsbeclipped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave beclipped
he, she, ithas beclipped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill beclip

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbeclipping

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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