To moisten a surface with tiny droplets resembling dew, including tears or perspiration.
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Words that belong together
- bedew with tears
- bedewed grass
- cheeks bedewed with moisture
On the page
A fine mist bedewed the leaves along the garden wall.
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Word forms
- Base
- bedew
- Past tense
- bedewed
- Past participle
- bedewed
- Present participle
- bedewing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- bedew
- Present continuous
- am/is/are bedewing
- Present perfect
- have/has bedewed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been bedewing
- Past
- bedewed
- Past continuous
- was/were bedewing
- Past perfect
- had bedewed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been bedewing
- Future
- will bedew
- Future continuous
- will be bedewing
- Future perfect
- will have bedewed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been bedewing
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated prose. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: bedew; bedews; bedewed; bedewed; bedewing Commonness: rare (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: MW confirms dewlike wetting; accepted despite rarity because minute droplets differ from general wetting or soaking. Writing functions: precise action, characterization. Third-person singular: bedews.
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