Meaning of bedoven | Babel Free

Definitions

1. drenched.
   not-comparable, obsolete
2. drowned.
   not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“Life of Saint Christina Mirabilis of Saint Trudons Alle hir body […] semyd be dowen in blood. [All her body seemed bedoven in blood.]”

“The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dank deep was every sike.”

“The words were unneeded as a woman, bedoven in blood and screaming, stumbl'd out from the back of the lead truck into the glaring lights.”

“Gentlemen, before this is over, we'll be bedoven with mud but the swine will be dead. We shall swallow our foes.”

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