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bedoven

bedoven adjective: drenched.

Adjective

bedoven (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) drenched.
    • Life of Saint Christina Mirabilis of Saint Trudons
      Alle hir body […] semyd be dowen in blood. [All her body seemed bedoven in blood.]
    • The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dank deep was every sike.A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512
  2. (obsolete) drowned.

Examples of bedoven in a sentence

  • The words were unneeded as a woman, bedoven in blood and screaming, stumbl'd out from the back of the lead truck into the glaring lights.2015, LT Wolf, The World King, ebook edition (fiction), →ISBN:
  • Gentlemen, before this is over, we'll be bedoven with mud but the swine will be dead.2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning:

Forms of bedoven

alternative formbedove

Origin of bedoven

From Middle English bedoven, from Old English bedofen, past particle of Old English bedūfan (“to bedive, to put under, immerse, submerge, drown”), equivalent to be- + dive. Cognate with Middle Low German bedöven (“immersed”).

Questions about bedoven

What does bedoven mean?
Bedoven means drenched.
How do you use bedoven in a sentence?
The words were unneeded as a woman, bedoven in blood and screaming, stumbl'd out from the back of the lead truck into the glaring lights.
What part of speech is bedoven?
Bedoven is an adjective.

Words near bedoven in the dictionary

  1. bedouinized
  2. bedouinizes
  3. bedouinizing
  4. bedouins
  5. Bedoulian
  6. bedoven
  7. Bedoy
  8. Bedoya
  9. Bedoyas
  10. bedoyo
  11. bedoyos

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