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bedew

[bih-doo, -dyoo] / bɪˈdu, -ˈdju /




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“Do not speak so closely to another person with such enthusiasm that you bedew the other man with your spittle,” he said, from a safe distance.

From Washington Times Sep. 6, 2019

Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.”

From Washington Post Jul. 19, 2017

It’s a little cooler today, but possibly rainier: Scattered showers may bedew us, with a high of 70.

From New York Times May 6, 2015

O Melibaeus, he was no man, but a God who releeude me: Euer he shalbe my God: from this same Sheepcot his alters Neuer, a tender lambe shall want, with blood to bedew them.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

And in the "Helen" he says something similar:— These are the beauteous virgin streams of Nile, Which in the place of rain bedew the plain Of Egypt when the white snow melts on th' hills.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us




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