bedoven
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Life of Saint Christina Mirabilis of Saint Trudons Alle hir body […] semyd be dowen in blood. [All her body seemed bedoven in blood.]"
- "The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dank deep was every sike."
- "The 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."
- "Gentlemen, before this is over, we'll be bedoven with mud but the swine will be dead. We shall swallow our foes."
Etymology
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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Inflected Forms
bedove (alternative)