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bedaubs

bedaubs is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 bedaubs

What is bedaubs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bedaubs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bedaub.

Words near bedaubs in the dictionary

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

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