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bedaub

[ bih-dawb ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to smear all over; besmear; soil.
  2. to ornament gaudily or excessively.


bedaub

/ ɪˈɔː /

verb

  1. to smear all over with something thick, sticky, or dirty
  2. to ornament in a gaudy or vulgar fashion
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ܲb·岹ܲ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bedaub1

First recorded in 1545–55; be- + daub
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So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o’clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.

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Paying test subjects for the trouble and risk of swallowing, being injected with or bedaubed with drugs or other medical substances is accepted practice worldwide.

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Our pessimist frauds and the Ibsensite pack Will groan as they thickly bedaub it in black.

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Chiefs harangued their yelling followers, braves bedaubed themselves with war-paint, smeared themselves with grease, hung feathers in their scalp-locks, and whooped and stamped till they had wrought themselves into a delirium of valor.

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To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.

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