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],
"etymology_text": "From be- + flea.",
"forms": [
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"form": "befleas",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "befleaing",
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"participle",
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{
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics",
"roman": "Who beflea'd with bad verses poor Louis Quatorze.",
"text": "One of those bores",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To pester, as fleas do."
],
"id": "en-beflea-en-verb-VJ3cGnFG",
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],
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"(transitive) To pester, as fleas do."
],
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"ipa": "/bɪˈfliː/"
},
{
"homophone": "beflee"
}
],
"word": "beflea"
}
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"(transitive) To pester, as fleas do."
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