Beflake
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Beflake is a verb meaning (transitive) To take off an external layer; skin in thin flakes.
Meaning
(transitive) To take off an external layer; skin in thin flakes.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To deck or cover with or as with flakes.
Example Sentences
For already close at hand the Argive host in full array marches and scours along, and the whitening foam beflakes the plain with drops from the deep breath of the steeds.
She moved to crouch motionless beside a chimney, while the couple she had just detected materialized in a slow descent out of the beflaked air to another roof only half a block away.
Word Forms
- beflakes
- beflaking
- beflaked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include beflay, slough, flake, flay, peel, exfoliate.
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