bespray

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verb

To spray on; spray all over; besprinkle, bespatter.

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Meanings

verbbespray (third-person singular simple present besprays, present participle bespraying, simple past and past participle besprayed)

present singular third person besprays · participle present bespraying · participle past besprayed · past besprayed

  1. raretransitiveTo spray on; spray all over; besprinkle, bespatter.

    Her limbs are roseate, and a sparkling dew Besprays her symmetry, as from the sea […]

    1881, Richard H. Horne, Bible Tragedies, page 30
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    In the heart of the rude Mountains shines the graceful seeming-boy, encircled with toppling cliffs, besprayed with cataracts, in the middle of a motley horde.

    1858, Thomas Carlyle, Meister's Travels

    […] the more voracious fellows disposing of the food before the feeder has time to dump all of it, and in the bargain perhaps liberally bespraying the man with mud or swill, […]

    1919, Bernard Lyman Johnson, Farm Mechanics

Origin

From be- (“on, upon, all over”) + spray.

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APA

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

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

Chicago

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

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