MEANING
To decorate or dress someone or something with numerous ornaments or decorative details.
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Words that belong together
- bedeck with flowers
- bedeck in ribbons
- richly bedecked
On the page
They bedecked the courtyard with lanterns for the evening feast.
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Word forms
- Base
- bedeck
- Past tense
- bedecked
- Past participle
- bedecked
- Present participle
- bedecking
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- bedeck
- Present continuous
- am/is/are bedecking
- Present perfect
- have/has bedecked
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been bedecking
- Past
- bedecked
- Past continuous
- was/were bedecking
- Past perfect
- had bedecked
- Past perfect continuous
- had been bedecking
- Future
- will bedeck
- Future continuous
- will be bedecking
- Future perfect
- will have bedecked
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been bedecking
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated prose. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: bedeck; bedecks; bedecked; bedecked; bedecking Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: MW adorn/decorate with finery; distinguish plentiful decoration from intrinsically gaudy excess. Writing functions: precise action, characterization. Third-person singular: bedecks.
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