[ UK /bɪdjˈuː/ ]
VERB
  1. cover with drops of dew or as with dew
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How To Use bedew In A Sentence

  • On the day they are ordered out to battle, your soldiers may weep, those sitting up bedewing their garments, and those lying down letting the tears run down their cheeks. Sun Tzu: The Art of War: Part 4
  • But her face was flushed and her forehead bedewed with sweat. Wildfire
  • Tears bathe his cheeks, and tears the ground bedew The Odyssey of Homer
  • O you butlers, creators of new forms, make me of no drinker a drinker, a perennity and everlastingness of sprinkling and bedewing me through these my parched and sinewy bowels. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • If it's sufficiently deep, it will call into existence a glittering watch chain on a protruding belly, labored breathing, and a bald head bedewed with perspiration. Translated Texts
  • Tears bathe his cheek, and tears the ground bedew: The Odyssey of Homer
  • The Lily Maid gave Lancelot her sexual-symbolic charm to make him invicible: her pearl-bedewed sleeve of red silk. Helen of Troy
  • Here we are weary and toilworn, but yonder is the land of rest where the sweat of labour shall no more bedew the worker's brow, and fatigue shall be for ever banished.
  • Glamour shots became kind of popular in the mid-1990s, especially for female authors, but at this point, lenses that seem to have been bedewed with Vaseline make a picture seem dated. Author! Author! » 2009 » October
  • Mademoiselle Zélie St. Pierre, on this particular Thursday, even assumed a "robe de soie," deemed in economical Labassecour an article of hazardous splendour and luxury; nay, it was remarked that she sent for a "coiffeur" to dress her hair that morning; there were pupils acute enough to discover that she had bedewed her handkerchief and her hands with a new and fashionable perfume. Villette
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