bedaub
/bih-dawb/US // bɪˈdɔb //UK // (bɪˈdɔːb) //
贝塔布,贝多布,贝多宝,贝多芬
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v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to smear all over; besmear; soil.
- : to ornament gaudily or excessively.
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Examples
Sacred trees and stones are painted red, and for the most solemn of their rites savages bedaub themselves with red clay.
With this paste the natives delighted to bedaub their faces.
Whan a man's shoe is blackened and bedaub'd with industry, it will procure him such a supply as will make him cheerful.
Against which he prepares to bedaub him, and swears he will do it from the beginning, from Jersey to this day.
Both Greeks and savages employ the bull-roarer, both bedaub the initiated with dirt or with white paint or chalk.
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