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Bedewed

Bedew \Be*dew"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedewed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bedewing.] To moisten with dew, or as with dew. ``Falling tears his face bedew.''
--Dryden.

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bedewed
  1. Covered with or as if with dew. v

  2. (en-past of: bedew)

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bedewed

adj. wet with dew [syn: dewy]

Usage examples of "bedewed".

At the sight of them the venerable Edith reared her drooping, desponding head, and the cheeks of the hoary father were bedewed with the tears of transport.

It was on an early day of April that the duke was sitting in his private room, a pen in one hand, and looking up with a face of pleasurable emotion at his wife, who stood by his side, her right arm sometimes on the back of his chair, and sometimes on his shoulder, while with her other hand, between the intervals of speech, she pressed a handkerchief to her eyes, bedewed with the expression of an affectionate excitement.

It was the young Emir kneeling, his beautiful blue eyes bedewed with tears.

Then, while straining her to his breast with the fondest parental commiseration, the tears, with which his eyes were overflowing, bedewed her cheeks.

Alice slowly raised herself off Connie, with eyes still humid with lust and her cunt bedewed with love-juice.

With mouths glued to each other they plunged, curvetted, wriggled, squirmed, till the blissful ecstasy overtook them both simultaneously, when madly they bedewed each other with their love-juice to the accompaniment of the most exquisite quiverings and thrillings, utterly absorbed in rapture!

The Indian stood despoiled of lands, The Negro bound with servile bands, Oppressed through weary years of toil, His blood and tears bedewed the soil.

Jonathan was walking sedately to the post-office, holding his dripping umbrella at a wonderful slant of exactness, without regard to the wind, thereby getting the soft drive of the rain full in his face, which became, as it were, bedewed with tears, entirely outside any cause of his own emotions.