"befast" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English befasten",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English befasten, from Old English befæstan, from Proto-West Germanic *bifastijan, equivalent to be- + fast.",
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    {
      "form": "befasts",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "befasting",
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      "glosses": [
        "To fasten."
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        "(transitive, archaic) To fasten."
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        "3": "befæstan"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English befasten, from Old English befæstan, from Proto-West Germanic *bifastijan, equivalent to be- + fast.",
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      "form": "befasts",
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        "singular",
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        "participle",
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        "To fasten."
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        "(transitive, archaic) To fasten."
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