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bemedal

bemedal verb: to award a medal to; to adorn with a medal.

Verb

bemedal (third-person singular simple present bemedals, present participle (US) bemedaling or (UK) bemedalling, simple past and past participle (US) bemedaled or (UK) bemedalled)

  1. (transitive) To award a medal to; to adorn with a medal.
    • They had come, by Himmler's order, to bemedal the camp commandant of Terezin, which had played its special role so splendidly in achieving the final solution of the Jewish problem.1998, Aaron Kramer, Saul Lishinsky, The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust, page 7

Forms of bemedal

third-person singular presentbemedals
present participle USbemedaling
present participle UKbemedalling
past participle USbemedaled
past USbemedaled
past participle UKbemedalled
past UKbemedalled

Origin of bemedal

From be- + medal.

Questions about bemedal

What does bemedal mean?
Bemedal means to award a medal to; to adorn with a medal.
What part of speech is bemedal?
Bemedal is a verb.
What is the past tense of bemedal?
The past tense of bemedal is bemedaled.

Words near bemedal in the dictionary

  1. bemean
  2. bemeaned
  3. bemeaning
  4. bemeans
  5. bemeant
  6. bemedal
  7. bemedaled
  8. bemedaling
  9. bemedalled
  10. bemedalling
  11. bemedals

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