bedung
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bedung (third-person singular simple present bedungs, present participle bedunging, simple past and past participle bedunged)
- (transitive) To cover with dung or manure.
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To bedaub or defile.
- 1649, Bishop Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience
- […] had not God's inexpected champion, by divine instinct, taken up the monster, and vanquished him; leaving all but his head to bedung that earth, which had lately shaken at his terror.
- 1649, Bishop Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience