- beetle, beetling - jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"
Antonym: intrusive (indirect, via protrusive)
- beetle - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
--1 is a kind of insect
--1 is a member of Coleoptera, order Coleoptera
--1 has particulars:- mallet, beetle - a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
--2 is a kind of hammer
--2 has particulars: carpenter's mallet; gavelDerived form: verb beetle3 - mallet, beetle - a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
- overhang, beetle - be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
--1 is one way to hang
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- beetle - fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
--2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- beetle - beat with a beetle
--3 is one way to beat
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun beetle2
Somebody ----s something
- beetle - beat with a beetle