bedashv.
/bɪˈdaʃ/ 1. transitive. To dash against, dash about.
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the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to impinge > forcibly or violently
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1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 196 It bedasheth on that side Cyzicum and Dindyma.
1640 J. Gower tr. Ovid Festivalls ii. 25 The battred billows all bedash the Shippe.
2. transitive. To injure or spoil by dashing (as the wind or rain dashes flowers).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > destroy the growth of plants, etc.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Richard III (1623) i. ii. 154 + 9 Like Trees bedash'd with raine.
1621 F. Quarles Hadassa in Divine Poems (1717) 46 His comfort is bedasht and done.
3. transitive. To cover with dashes of colour or adornment.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > mark with patches [verb (transitive)] > splash with colour
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1564 A. Golding tr. Justinus Hist. Trogus Pompeius xvii. f. 90 Bedect with skarlet and bedashte with golde.
1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 131 Purple gouts bedash The guilty ground.
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