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Bedaub vs Benumb - What's the difference?

bedaub | benumb |

In lang=en terms the difference between bedaub and benumb

is that bedaub is to ornament garishly; to overdecorate while benumb is to deaden.

As verbs the difference between bedaub and benumb

is that bedaub is to smear upon; to soil while benumb is to make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.

bedaub

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To smear upon; to soil.
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    • , year=2009 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Noeleen McIlvenna , quotee=journal, 1711 , title=A Very Mutinous People , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press , isbn=9780807832868 , page=18 , passage=In this 6 mile we Crosst several miring branches in which we were all terribly bedaubed … Having almost spent the day in this toilsome tho short Journey. }}
  • To ornament garishly; to overdecorate.

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    benumb

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.
  • To deaden.