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Definition: Bedaub |
BedaubVerb1. Spread or daub over. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bedaub" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonyms: BedaubSynonyms: besmear (v), smear (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash; parget; lay it on thick. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bedaub |
| English words defined with "bedaub": Bedaubing, Bedung, Beplaster. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bedaub": Lutation. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "bedaub"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndot (besmirch, bespatter, contaminate, defile, dirty, disgust, foul, grime, pollute, repugnance, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لوث (befoul, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, degrade, dirty, discredit, file, foul, pollute, smear, smirch, soil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish), لطخ (besmear, blot, blotch, blur, daub, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, splash, splotch, spot, stain, streak, sully, taint, tarnish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нацапвам, наплесквам (muddy, paddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | barbouiller (besmear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beschmieren (besmear, daub, scrawl all over, smear, spread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρυπαίνω (befoul, besmirch, defile, pollute, smirch, soil, sully), πασαλείφω (besmear with, daub, smear), φορτώνω (barge into, burden, charging, clutter up, load, loading, saddle, ship, weight down), επιχρίω (coat, daub, to coat, to cover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bemázol (daub, to plaster, to splodge, to splotch, to wash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | imbrattare (besmirch, daub, dirty, maculate, smudge, soil, stain), dare una mano di vernice a. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | slaa (besmear, blotch of colour, dash, daub, daubing, paint; blotting, painting, plaster, smarm, smear, smearing; dab of paint, spatter, spread, spreading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edaubbay borrar (blob, blot, blue pencil, botch, bungle, daub, ink jet, scrawl, slubber, smudge, spoil). (various references) mânji (beddable, besmear, besmirch, blur, daub, defile, foul, grime, mess, smirch, soil, stain, sully). (various references) запачкать (bedraggle). (various references) zamrljati bojom. (various references) manchar (befoul, besmirch, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, dapple, daub, defile, dirty, foul, maculate, Mark, set off, smear, smudge, soil, spoil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish), embadurnar (besmear, daub). (various references) kladda ner. (various references) bulaştırmak (bedabble, besmear, blur, communicate, contaminate, corrupt, daub, dirty, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, implicate, infect, involve, inweave, propagate, slush, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spread, taint, transmit, twine), sürmek (apply, banish, cast out, coat, continue, daub, distribute, drive, drive out, endure, exile, expatriate, expel, hang over, herd, last, lay on, lead, ostracize, outlaw, persist, pitchfork, relegate, roll, rub, run, slip in, smear, splash, spread, steer, stock, stream, stuff, throw out, till, tool along, transport, wipe on), lekelemek (asperse, attaint, bastardize, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish), kirletmek (befoul, begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, dirty, foul, foul up, grime, make dirty, mess, pollute, rape, slur, smear, smirch, smutch, soil, spatter, stain, sully, tarnish, vitiate), karalamak (besmear, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot out, breathe upon, calumniate, chalk out, dash, dash down, dash off, denigrate, doodle, draw, line through, pollute, rule smth. out, scandalize, score out, scrabble, scratch, scribble, scribble down, smudge, smut, strike through). (various references) обвішати прикрасами, замазати, забруднити (besmear, bruckle, mire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bedaub": bedaubed, bedaubing, bedaubs. (additional references) | |
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"Bedaub" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baaquba, Badaoui, baduan, Baldauf, bedae, bedai, Bedaux, Beddau, Bedeux, bedium, Bedou, Bedous, bedu, bedumb, Bendaoud, Bidayuh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-e-u" | |
-1 letter: daube. | |
-2 letters: abbe, abed, babe, babu, bade, baud, bead, beau, bedu, daub. | |
-3 letters: bad, bed, bub, bud, dab, deb, dub, due, eau, ebb. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, ae, ba, be, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d-e-u" | |
+1 letter: bedaubs. | |
+2 letters: bedaubed, unbarbed. | |
+3 letters: barbecued, barbequed, bedaubing, bluebeard, buildable, doubtable, dubitable, squabbled. | |
+4 letters: belaboured, bluebeards, breadcrumb, bubblehead, landlubber, subaudible, unabsorbed, unbarbered, unbendable. | |
+5 letters: boatbuilder, breadcrumbs, bubbleheads, indubitable, landlubbers, obnubilated, redoubtable, redoubtably, unbudgeable, unbudgeably, unbuildable, undebatable, undebatably, undoubtable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 64 61 75 62 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -.. .- ..- -... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100100 01100001 01110101 01100010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e d a u b |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0064 0061 0075 0062 |
| 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)367170678768 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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