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bedoven en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English bedoven, from Old English bedofen, past particle of Old English bedūfan (“to bedive, to put under, immerse, submerge, drown”), equivalent to be- + dive. Cognate with Middle Low German bedöven (“immersed”).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, obsolete) drenched.
   • Gentlemen, before this is over, we'll be bedoven with mud but the swine will be dead. We shall swallow our foes. 2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning:
   • Life of Saint Christina Mirabilis of Saint Trudons Alle hir body […] semyd be dowen in blood. [All her body seemed bedoven in blood.]
   • 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. 2015, LT Wolf, The World King, ebook edition (fiction), →ISBN:
   • The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dank deep was every sike. A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512
2. (not-comparable, obsolete) drowned.

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