Bedew vs Bedaw - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between bedew and bedaw

is that bedew is to make wet with or as if with dew while bedaw is to awake.

(en verb)

To make wet with or as if with dew.

* 1885:

While sympathetic tears

My cheeks bedew

* 1836 , (Eliza Cook), ""

*:I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare

*:To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ?

*:I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ;

*:I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs.

* 1831 , (Mary Shelley),

*:Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me.

* bedewed

(en verb)

To awake.

*1980 , John Gower, Confessio Amantis, or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins :

That on hald and that other draweth, Ther is no day which hem bedaweth , […]