bedew

Definitions

To make wet with or as if with dew.

transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Balm, from a ſilver-box diſtill'd around, / Shall all bedew the roots, and ſcent the ſacred ground.”

“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.”

“As if their own⟳ indignant earth, / Which gave the sons of England birth, / Had felt their blood upon her brow, / And shuddering with a mother's throe, / Had turned every drop of blood, / By which her face⟳ had been bedewed / To an accent unwithstood, / As if her heart had cried aloud: […]”

“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.”

“While sympathetic tears / My cheeks bedew”

CEFR level