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Bedewy vs Bedew - What's the difference?

bedewy | bedew |

As an adjective bedewy

is (obsolete) moist with dew; dewy.

As a verb bedew is

to make wet with or as if with dew.

bedewy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Moist with dew; dewy.
    • Night with her bedewy wings. — A. Brewer.
    (Webster 1913)

    bedew

    English

    Verb

    (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.

    • Derived terms

    * bedewed

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