beflagged
/biˈflæɡd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of beflag
Example Sentences
- "It amuses me to think by day, when broad awake in my sad English prison, and among my crazy peers, how this nightly umbrageous French solitude of mine, so many miles and years away, is now but a common, bare, wide grassy plain, overlooked by a gaudy, beflagged grand-stand."
- "All other folks slumbered and took their rest: Vaekehu, the native Queen, in her trim house under the rustling palms; the Tahitian missionary, in his beflagged official residence; […]"
- "There was little ceremonial to mark the opening of the completed railway beyond the fact that a decorated train left Paddington at 8 a.m. on the morning of June 30 a hundred years ago and, passing the beflagged ends of Box tunnel, arrived at Bristol at noon."
Etymology
From beflag + -ed.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /biˈflæɡd/
- British English: /bɪˈflæɡd/
Inflected Forms
more beflagged (comparative)
most beflagged (superlative)