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bedew

bedew verb: to make wet with or as if with dew.

Verb

bedew (third-person singular simple present bedews, present participle bedewing, simple past and past participle bedewed)

  1. (transitive) To make wet with or as if with dew.
    • Balm, from a ſilver-box diſtill'd around, / Shall all bedew the roots, and ſcent the ſacred ground.a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus. From the 18th Idyllium of Theocritus.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob]...
    • Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me.1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding...

bedew meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

bedew in Tamil

to bedew; to ooze out, as perspiration
பொடி poṭi

bedew in Urdu

ہلکا سا نم کرنا

bedew in Kannada

ಮಂಜು ಮುಸುಕು, ಮಂಜು ಚಿಮುಕಿಸು

Forms of bedew

third-person singular presentbedews
present participlebedewing
past participlebedewed
pastbedewed

Origin of bedew

From Middle English bidewen, bideawen; equivalent to be- + dew. Cognate with Dutch bedauwen (“to bedew”), German betauen (“to bedew”).

Words formed from bedew

Questions about bedew

What does bedew mean?
Bedew means to make wet with or as if with dew.
What is bedew in Tamil?
Bedew in Tamil is பொடி (poṭi). See Bedew meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bedew?
Bedew is a verb.
What is the past tense of bedew?
The past tense of bedew is bedewed.

Words near bedew in the dictionary

  1. bedevilling
  2. bedevillings
  3. bedevilment
  4. bedevilments
  5. bedevils
  6. bedew
  7. bedewed
  8. bedewer
  9. bedewers
  10. bedewing
  11. bedewoman

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bedew (page history and authors); பொடி (Tamil) (page history and authors); bedew (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bedew (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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