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Bedaub

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To smear; soil.

v. To ornament in a vulgar, showy fashion.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To smear upon; to soil.

v. To ornament garishly; to overdecorate.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To daub over; besmear; soil.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. spread or daub (a surface)

Word Usage

"All this madness yet proceeds from ourselves, the main engine which batters us is from others, we are merely passive in this business: from a company of parasites and flatterers, that with immoderate praise, and bombast epithets, glossing titles, false eulogiums, so bedaub and applaud, gild over many a silly and undeserving man, that they clap him quite out of his wits."

Verb Form

bedaubed bedaubing bedaubs

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

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Form

bedaubed bedaubing