Meanings
alternative bedove
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Life of Saint Christina Mirabilis of Saint Trudons Alle hir body […] semyd be dowen in blood. [All her body seemed bedoven in blood.]
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The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dank deep was every sike.
A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512The 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), →ISBNGentlemen, 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 - not comparableobsoletedrowned.
Origin
- Old Englishbedūfan“to bedive, to put under, immerse, submerge, drown”
- Old Englishbedofen
- Middle Englishbedoven
- Englishbedoven
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”).
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bedoven. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedoven
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