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Bedew vs Unbedewed - What's the difference?

bedew | unbedewed |

As a verb bedew

is to make wet with or as if with dew.

As an adjective unbedewed is

not bedewed.

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

    Anagrams

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    unbedewed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not bedewed.
  • * 1801 , Charles Grant de Vaux, The history of Mauritius, or the Isle of France, and the neighbouring islands
    • The rains are the best, and, indeed, the only manure in this island, and they confine their course to the forests, leaving unbedewed the tracts that are cleared.