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bedaubed

bedaubed is the simple past and past participle of bedaub.

Meaning of bedaub

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

Words formed from bedaubed

Questions about bedaubed

What is bedaubed the simple past and past participle of?
Bedaubed is the simple past and past participle of bedaub.

Words near bedaubed in the dictionary

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

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