past tense and past participle of befret; caused someone to worry or feel anxious.
Formed by adding the regular past tense suffix '-ed' to befret, following standard English verb conjugation patterns established centuries ago.
Notice how English lets us add '-ed' to almost any verb to make it past tense, even old words like befret that most people don't use anymore—it's a remarkably flexible system.
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