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bedewing

bedewing is the present participle and gerund of bedew.

Meaning of bedew

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]...

Questions about bedewing

What is bedewing the present participle and gerund of?
Bedewing is the present participle and gerund of bedew.

Words near bedewing in the dictionary

  1. bedevils
  2. bedew
  3. bedewed
  4. bedewer
  5. bedewers
  6. bedewing
  7. bedewoman
  8. bedewomen
  9. bedews
  10. bedewy
  11. Bedf

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