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bedeck

/bɪˈdɛk/

bedeck verb: to deck, ornament, or adorn.

Verb

bedeck (third-person singular simple present bedecks, present participle bedecking, simple past and past participle bedecked)

  1. (transitive) To deck, ornament, or adorn
    • She bedecked her wedding gown with seed pearls.
  2. (transitive) to grace.

bedeck meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

bedeck in Urdu

آراستہ کرنا, سجانا

bedeck in Malayalam

adorn, decorate, ornament
അലങ്കരിക്കുക, ചമയിക്കുക, ചമല്ക്കരിക്കുക, കോപ്പിടുക, വിതാനിക്കുക, മനോഹരമാക്കിത്തീർക്കുക

Forms of bedeck

third-person singular presentbedecks
present participlebedecking
past participlebedecked
pastbedecked

Origin of bedeck

From be- + deck. Compare West Frisian bedekke (“to cover”), Dutch bedekken (“to cover, coat, overlay”), German bedecken (“to cover, top, overlay”), Swedish betäcka (“to cover, shelter”). Doublet of bethatch.

Words formed from bedeck

Words that rhyme with bedeck

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Questions about bedeck

What does bedeck mean?
Bedeck means to deck, ornament, or adorn.
What is bedeck in Urdu?
Bedeck in Urdu is آراستہ کرنا, سجانا. See Bedeck meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is bedeck?
Bedeck is a verb.
How do you pronounce bedeck?
Bedeck is pronounced /bɪˈdɛk/ (UK).
What is the past tense of bedeck?
The past tense of bedeck is bedecked.

Words near bedeck in the dictionary

  1. bedeafens
  2. bedeal
  3. Bedean
  4. bedear
  5. bedears
  6. bedeck
  7. bedecked
  8. bedecker
  9. bedeckers
  10. bedecketh
  11. bedecking

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bedeck (page history and authors); bedeck (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bedeck (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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