bedream

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verb

To dream about; bestow with dreams or impart dreams unto.

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Meanings

verbbedream (third-person singular simple present bedreams, present participle bedreaming, simple past and past participle bedreamt or bedreamed)

present singular third person bedreams · participle present bedreaming · participle past bedreamt · past bedreamt · participle past bedreamed · past bedreamed

  1. transitiveTo dream about; bestow with dreams or impart dreams unto.

    O learned John, but thou art grown fantastic As a romancer! thou art quite bedream'd[…]

    1840, George Darley, Thomas à Becket: A Dramatic Chronicle in Five Acts
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    I had only to turn it, the soul's own image to see there: — Beauty that might bedream the sleep of a youthful immortal![…]

    1901, Morrison Heady, The Double Night and Other Poems

    In the last verse there is hope — a prayer of hope — that in his new-found liberation he will create again: But lo, in this pathway of duty, To the past, I, at least, can be true, And the mists that bedream it with beauty[…]

    1978, Ralph Friedman, Tracking Down Oregon

Origin

From be- + dream.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

embread
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APA

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MLA

“bedream.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedream. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bedream,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedream.

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