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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

/ bɪˈdɔːb /

verb

  1. to smear all over with something thick, sticky, or dirty
  2. to ornament in a gaudy or vulgar fashion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • unbe·daubed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bedaub1

First recorded in 1545–55; be- + daub
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Example Sentences

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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