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English
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”).
Adjective
bedoven (not comparable)
- (obsolete) drenched.
- Life of Saint Christina Mirabilis of Saint Trudons
- Alle hir body semyd be dowen in blood.
- A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512
- The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dank deep was every sike.
2015, LT Wolf, The World King, ebook edition (fiction), →ISBN: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.
2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning:Gentlemen, before this is over, we'll be bedoven with mud but the swine will be dead. We shall swallow our foes.
- (obsolete) drowned.
Dutch
Etymology
Past participle of obsolete beduiven.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈdoː.və(n)/
- Hyphenation: be‧do‧ven
- Rhymes: -oːvən
Adjective
bedoven (not comparable)
- (archaic, dialectal) submerged, under water (sometimes also used of other fluids)
- (obsolete) immersed
Declension