Beclap
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Beclap is a verb meaning To grasp, insnare, ensnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly.
Meaning
To grasp, insnare, ensnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly.
More Meanings
- To clap for; to applaud.
Example Sentences
He who has loved quiet, who has so long shunned publicity, must school himself to be cheered and beclapped and huzzaed by thousands every time he lets himself be seen.
He so besmouched her, and she so beclapped him, and there tumbling together, as merrie as they would wish, I sighed to thinke, what a supper they would haue after break-fast.
In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]
No one is so beclapped as the author of a popular drama bowing over his own footlights; the artists and romancers of the daily press are modester than they themselves would be willing to admit.
Word Forms
- beclaps
- beclapping
- beclapped
- beclapp
Synonyms for beclap
Depending on context, synonyms include acclaim, hurrah, acclamate, applaud, hail, barrack.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clasp, beclip, catch, attrap, betrap, beclasp.
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