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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

Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse Be drops of Balm to sanctify thy head. 2nd Henry IV, act iv, sc.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

But, if so fate decrees, what can I more, Than with unceasing tears these eyes bedew, Abase my visage, and my lot deplore?

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell


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