bedaub
Americanverb (used with object)
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to smear all over; besmear; soil.
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to ornament gaudily or excessively.
verb
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to smear all over with something thick, sticky, or dirty
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to ornament in a gaudy or vulgar fashion
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Origin of bedaub
Example Sentences
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Besmear, be-smēr′, v.t. to smear over: to bedaub: to pollute.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Does any one bedaub his friends with flattery?
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
"Yes, but you must not bedaub the walls," said Mother Carsten.
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich
To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
The men paint or bedaub their faces and breasts with a kind of red earth.
From The Captive in Patagonia by Bourne, Benjamin Franklin
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