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bedaub
[ bih-dawb ]
verb (used with object)
- to smear all over; besmear; soil.
- to ornament gaudily or excessively.
bedaub
/ bɪˈdɔːb /
verb
- to smear all over with something thick, sticky, or dirty
- to ornament in a gaudy or vulgar fashion
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- unbe·daubed adjective
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Example Sentences
Sacred trees and stones are painted red, and for the most solemn of their rites savages bedaub themselves with red clay.
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With this paste the natives delighted to bedaub their faces.
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Whan a man's shoe is blackened and bedaub'd with industry, it will procure him such a supply as will make him cheerful.
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Against which he prepares to bedaub him, and swears he will do it from the beginning, from Jersey to this day.
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Both Greeks and savages employ the bull-roarer, both bedaub the initiated with dirt or with white paint or chalk.
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