To dress or decorate someone or something with conspicuously showy, often excessive finery.
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Words that belong together
- bedizen with jewels
- bedizen in sequins
- bedizened finery
On the page
The impresario bedizened the dancers in metallic capes and towering headdresses.
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Word forms
- Base
- bedizen
- Past tense
- bedizened
- Past participle
- bedizened
- Present participle
- bedizening
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- bedizen
- Present continuous
- am/is/are bedizening
- Present perfect
- have/has bedizened
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been bedizening
- Past
- bedizened
- Past continuous
- was/were bedizening
- Past perfect
- had bedizened
- Past perfect continuous
- had been bedizening
- Future
- will bedizen
- Future continuous
- will be bedizening
- Future perfect
- will have bedizened
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been bedizening
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated prose. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: bedizen; bedizens; bedizened; bedizened; bedizening 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 explicitly showy finery; accepted despite rarity because ostentatious excess adds a satirical characterization cue. Writing functions: precise action, characterization. Third-person singular: bedizens.
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