Beflake

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To take off an external layer; skin in thin flakes. transitive
  2. 2
    To deck or cover with or as with flakes. transitive

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From be- + flake.

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