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befit

verb
/bɪˈfɪt/

Etymology

From be- + fit.

  1. derived from figo
  2. inherited from fitt
  3. inherited from fit
  4. prefixed as befit — “be + fit”

Definitions

  1. to be fit for

    • His conduct was not befitting an officer of his station.
    • Clarke's side roared back with courage and belief befitting a team who had held their nerve in two shootouts to get here.
    • Fine or arrogant speech does not befit [an empty-headed] fool—much less do lying lips befit a prince

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at befit. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at befit. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at befit

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA