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bedaub

/bɪˈdɔb//bɪˈdɔːb/

bedaub verb: to smear upon; to soil.

Verb

bedaub (third-person singular simple present bedaubs, present participle bedaubing, simple past and past participle bedaubed)

  1. (transitive) To smear upon; to soil.
    • In this 6 mile we Crosst several miring branches in which we were all terribly bedaubed … Having almost spent the day in this toilsome tho short Journey.2009, Noeleen McIlvenna, quoting journal, 1711, A Very Mutinous People, Univ of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 18
    Synonyms:
    bedirty, befoul, sully, assoil, beclart, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, begrime
  2. (transitive) To ornament garishly; to overdecorate.
    Synonyms:
    bedizen, gaud

bedaub meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

bedaub in Tamil

எல்லாப் பக்கமும் பூசு, அப்பு, அசுத்தப் படுத்து, வண்ணம் பூசு, அழுக்காக்கு, பகட்டாக உடுத்து

bedaub in Urdu

ساننا

bedaub in Malayalam

daub, smear, bespatter
പൂശുക, പുരട്ടുക, മെഴുകുക, തേയ്ക്കുക, ലേപനം ചെയ്യുക, താറടിക്കുക

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Forms of bedaub

third-person singular presentbedaubs
present participlebedaubing
past participlebedaubed
pastbedaubed
alternative formbedawb

Origin of bedaub

From be- (“thoroughly, extensively”) + daub, from Old French dauber (“to plaster, whitewash”), from Latin dealbō (“whiten over, plaster”).

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Questions about bedaub

What does bedaub mean?
Bedaub means to smear upon; to soil.
What is bedaub in Tamil?
Bedaub in Tamil is எல்லாப் பக்கமும் பூசு, அப்பு, அசுத்தப் படுத்து. See Bedaub meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bedaub?
Bedaub is a verb.
How do you pronounce bedaub?
Bedaub is pronounced /bɪˈdɔːb/ (UK).
What is the past tense of bedaub?
The past tense of bedaub is bedaubed.

Words near bedaub in the dictionary

  1. Bedas
  2. bedash
  3. bedashed
  4. bedashes
  5. bedashing
  6. bedaub
  7. bedaubed
  8. bedaubeth
  9. bedaubing
  10. bedaubs
  11. bedaughtered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedaub (page history and authors); bedaub (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bedaub (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bedaub (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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