Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To deck, ornament, or adorn

    She bedecked her wedding gown with seed pearls.

    schmücken, verzieren

    украшатьukrašatʹ

  2. (transitive)To grace.

More definitions
  • decorate

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The tree stands motionless, clothed in twilight, thickly bedecked with dewdrops.

    Непорушно стоять дерева, загорнені в сутінь, рясно вкриті краплистою росою.

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  2. Her head was surmounted by a huge white chiffon hat, bedecked with three long but rather stringy ostrich feathers.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
deck, ornament, adorn:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
deck, ornament, adorn:

Origin

From be- + deck. Compare West Frisian bedekke (“to cover”), Dutch bedekken (“to cover, coa

From be- + deck. Compare West Frisian bedekke (“to cover”), Dutch bedekken (“to cover, coat, overlay”), German bedecken (“to cover, top, overlay”), Swedish betäcka (“to cover, shelter”). Doublet of bethatch.

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Forms

bedecks, bedecking, bedecked, bedecked
Base formbedeck · to bedeck
3rd person singularbedecks
Present participlebedecking
Past simplebedecked
Past participlebedecked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybedeck
he, she, itbedecks

Past simpleLesson

all personsbedecked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bedecked
he, she, ithas bedecked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bedeck

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbedecker

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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