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bedaubing

bedaubing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about bedaubing

What is bedaubing the present participle and gerund of?
Bedaubing is the present participle and gerund of bedaub.

Words near bedaubing in the dictionary

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

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