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Meanings of bedaub in English

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empastifar

Spread or daub (a surface)

        empastifar
        Usage of bedaub in English
        1
        Against which he prepares to bedaub him, and swears he will do it from the beginning, from Jersey to this day.
        Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 18: September/October 1662
        2
        The women wear small ear-rings of silver, but use no paint, nor do they bedaub their persons with any sort of pigment.
        Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, ...
        3
        His sin bedaubs him, mars all his good impression.
        Essays — First Series
        4
        A parasitic host bedaubed the north with grotesque white.
        The last page
        5
        Obeying the instructions of the illusionist, Violette curled up inside a trunk bedaubed with Egyptian symbols.
        Island beneath the sea
        6
        Bedaub them, and the mass of the monikins, too, with just as much filth as you please.
        The Monikins
        7
        This slime of a good action performed towards you bedaubs and bespatters you with mud for ever.
        The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
        8
        Bedaub with filth, loot, hack and slash,
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917
        Translations for bedaub
        Bedaub through the time