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to bedew

to bedew

9.9
To cover something with small drops of water like dew or sweat
  • verb
  • /bɪˈdu/
  • Archaic
translation icon : rociar
  • A tiny lake was a silver mirror, and bushes were covered and linked by innumerable bedewed spiders' webs.

Examples

  • But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, it will not be more than we can bear when moistened -and bedewed with pleasures.

    Bright Star (2009)

  • And one by one, they dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel and died, each in the despairing posture of his fall.

    Academic text (1997)

  • "And one by one dropped the revellers "in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel.

    The Raven (2012)

  • -"And bedewed with pleasures."

    Bright Star (2009)

  • "Bedewed with pleasures."

    Bright Star (2009)

  • And his gore-bedewed rubber glove indicated the still-agape aperture of la bonne femme Holdstock.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The morning grass was bedewed with tiny droplets of water, sparkling in the sunlight.

  • After the overnight rain, the flowers were bedewed and looked particularly vibrant.

  • As I walked through the garden at dawn, I noticed that the petals were bedewed with fresh dew.

Synonyms

to dew
vsto bedew
1 7.2

To get small drops of water on surfaces in the morning

covers with dew-like liquid and is not limited to the morning

How Wet

to soak
141 1.0
wet
1 1.0
to bedew
  • Archaic
9.9
to moisten
7 3.0
to dampen
4 3.4

Surface Forms

bedew infinitive
bedewed past
bedewed past participle
bedewing present participle
bedews third person singular

Morphology

bedew = dew (transparent) = be + dew

The verb is directly formed by the productive English prefix 'be-' + the noun 'dew', giving 'to cover with dew', which is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

Bedew comes from two simple parts: be- and dew. The dew part means 'drops of water on plants' and be- is a small word that makes something 'covered with', so bedew means to be 'covered with drops', as in a leaf bedewed by morning or cheeks bedewed with tears.