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bedizen

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7 lettersPronunciation /bɪˈdaɪz(ə)n/Part of speech verbSorted bdeeinzStarts with BEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. dress up garishly and tastelessly

Word origin

From be- (intensifying prefix) + dizen (“to attire, dress, especially showily”). Dizen is derived from dialectal dize (“to put (tow) on a distaff”), probably from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”); further etymology unknown.

Used in a sentence

  • Thus the Violet that gayly bedizens the Mead / A fragrance more ſvveet does ſupply, / Tho' oft' rudely bruſh'd by the Traveller's tread, / Than if rear'd in the garden hard bye.
  • [T]he whole [group] had been bedizzened out, into a burlesque imitation of an antique masque.
  • You have bedizened me in green, a colour he detests. Lo you! let me have a blue robe, and—search for the ruby carcanet, which was part of the King of Cyprus's ransom—it is either in the steel-casket, or somewhere else.

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