bedye

B3E1D2Y4E1
/bɪˈdaɪ/

verb

To dye or stain.

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Meanings

verbbedye (third-person singular simple present bedyes, present participle bedyeing, simple past and past participle bedyed)

present singular third person bedyes · participle present bedyeing · participle past bedyed · past bedyed

  1. archaictransitiveTo dye or stain.

    Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7

Origin

From be- + dye.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

debye
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APA

bedye. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedye

MLA

“bedye.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedye. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bedye,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedye.

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