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Bedaub

Definition: Bedaub

Bedaub

Verb

1. 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: Bedaub

Synonyms: besmear (v), smear (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bedaub

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Bedaub

English words defined with "bedaub": Bedaubing, Bedung, Beplaster. (references)
Etymologies containing "bedaub": Lutation. (references)

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Modern Translations: Bedaub

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

   

Portuguese

  

borrar (blob, blot, blue pencil, botch, bungle, daub, ink jet, scrawl, slubber, smudge, spoil). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

mânji (beddable, besmear, besmirch, blur, daub, defile, foul, grime, mess, smirch, soil, stain, sully). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

запачкать (bedraggle). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zamrljati bojom. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

kladda ner. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

обвішати прикрасами, замазати, забруднити (besmear, bruckle, mire). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bedaub

Derivations

Words beginning with "bedaub": bedaubed, bedaubing, bedaubs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Bedaub

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bedaub


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 64 61 75 62

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    -..    .-    ..-    -...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01100100 01100001 01110101 01100010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#100 &#97 &#117 &#98

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367170678768

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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