bedoven

English

Alternative forms

• bedove

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)

1. (obsolete) drenched.
   • Life of Saint Christina Mirabilis of Saint Trudons

     Alle hir body […] semyd be dowen in blood. [All her body seemed bedoven 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.

2. (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)

1. (archaic, dialectal) submerged, under water (sometimes also used of other fluids)
2. (obsolete) immersed

Inflection

Inflection of bedoven
uninflected	bedoven
inflected	bedoven
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		bedoven
indefinite	m./f. sing.	bedoven
	n. sing.	bedoven
	plural	bedoven
definite		bedoven
partitive