Bespatter vs Bedaub - What's the difference?
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To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance.
To soil by spattering.
(figuratively) To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend.
To smear upon; to soil.
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To ornament garishly; to overdecorate.
In transitive terms the difference between bespatter and bedaub
is that bespatter is to soil by spattering while bedaub is to ornament garishly; to overdecorate.bespatter
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(en verb)bedaub
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(en verb)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. }}
