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Definition: Bedew |
BedewVerb1. Cover with drops, as with dew. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bedew" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Moisture | Verb: moisten, wet; humect, humectate; sponge, damp, bedew; imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench. (water). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bedew |
| English words defined with "bedew": Bedewing, Beweep ♦ Irrorate. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "bedew"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spërkat (asperse, besprinkle, damp, dampen, dash, dew, perfuse, plash, slosh, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خضل (moisten, wet), أندى (dew, moisten), بلل (bathe, dabble, damp, dampness, drench, moisten, moistening, soaking, sodden, wet, wetness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оросявам (irrigate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | orosit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | faire mouiller. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ραίνω, δροσίζω (cool, cool off, freshen, quench, refresh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | harmatossá tesz (to dew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | irrorare (spray, sprinkle, wet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tashlaghey (bedewing, deliquesce), druightaghey (bedewing, incant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edewbay borrifar (asperse, besprinkle, dabble, dash, dew, drop, perfuse, plash, spray, sprinkle), orvalhar (asperse, dew, drop a lawsuit, moisten, perfuse, sprinkle). (various references) uda (damp, dip, douse, drench, irrigate, moisten, soak, souse, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, stain, steep, wash, water, wet), roura, înroura. (various references) покрывать росой. (various references) humedecer (damp, dampen, humidify, moisten, water, wet). (various references) stänka på (sprinkle). (various references) çiy taneleriyle ıslatmak. (various references) вкривати росою, оббризкувати (asperse, besprinkle, sparge, spatter, splash). (various references) gwlychu (dip, get wet, moisten, wet), gwlitho (dew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bedew": bedewed, bedewing, bedews. (additional references) | |
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"Bedew" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badawy, Bcde, bdw, bedae, bedai, bedap, bedde, beddes, beded, bedel, bedes, Bedeux, bedit, Bedo, Bedou, bedu, bedwet, beew, Behdet, Belew, benew, betwe, edew, medew, redew. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dweeb. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-w" | |
-1 letter: weed. | |
-2 letters: bed, bee, deb, dee, dew, ewe, web, wed, wee. | |
-3 letters: be, de, ed, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-w" | |
+1 letter: bedews, brewed, dweebs, webbed, webfed. | |
+2 letters: bedewed, bewared, boweled, bowered, burweed, elbowed, embowed. | |
+3 letters: bedewing, beefwood, behowled, bellowed, bendwise, besnowed, bestowed, bewailed, bewigged, bewilder, bewinged, bewormed, bewrayed, bindweed, blueweed, bowelled, bullweed, burweeds, dewberry, enwombed, wadeable, waterbed, weldable. | |
+4 letters: beclowned, becrawled, becrowded, bedfellow, bedwarfed, bedwetter, beefwoods, bejeweled, beshrewed, bestrewed, bestrowed, beswarmed, bewearied, bewilders, bewitched, beworried, bewrapped, bindweeds, blueweeds, bowlegged, bridewell, bugleweed, bullweeds, cobwebbed, emboweled, embowered, embrowned, flowerbed, imbowered, shewbread, spiderweb, waterbeds. | |
+5 letters: becowarded, bedfellows, bedwetters, beflowered, beggarweed, bejewelled, belowdecks, beshadowed, bewildered, bitterweed, bowdlerise, bowdlerize, bridewells, bugleweeds, butterweed, dewberries, disboweled, disembowel, embowelled, flowerbeds, furbelowed, rewardable, shewbreads, spiderwebs, sweetbread, tumbleweed, weaverbird, whitebeard, wildebeest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 64 65 77 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -.. . .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100100 01100101 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e d e w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0064 0065 0077 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671707189 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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