BEDAUB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bedaub mean? 

• BEDAUB (verb)
  The verb BEDAUB has 1 sense:

1. spread or daub (a surface)

  Familiarity information: BEDAUB used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEDAUB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bedaub    ... he / she / it bedaubs   
Past simple: bedaubed   
Past participle: bedaubed   
-ing form: bedaubing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spread or daub (a surface)

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bedaub; besmear

Hypernyms (to "bedaub" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o'clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)