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单词 bedrop
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bedropv.

/bɪˈdrɒp/
Forms: Past participle bedropped, bedropt.
Etymology: < be- prefix 4 + drop v.
1. transitive. To drop upon, cover or wet with drops.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > with drops
dripec1000
bedewc1374
bedrop1393
spot1854
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 254 As men sene the dew bedroppe The leves and the floures eke.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 527 The Soil Bedropt with blood of Gorgon. View more context for this quotation
1829 W. Wordsworth Liberty in Wks. V. 102 Life's book for Thee may lie unclosed, till age Shall with a thankful tear bedrop its latest page.
2.
a. past participle. Sprinkled as with drops.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [adjective] > spotted
spotteda1325
spotty1340
splotty1382
scawed1398
engoutedc1450
dropped1611
measled1634
fly-bitten1639
maculated1646
bedrop1658
polluted1667
diced1671
puncticular1671
pantherine1753
parded1806
guttular1811
naevose1847
pellucido-punctate1847
measly1849
notate1857
maculiferous1863
spot-skin1871
naevous1890
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 965 The..body yellow, bedropt with black from the neck to the tail.
1858 Blackwood's Mag. 482 Lomond and Awe bedropt with woody isles.
b. figurative. Strewn, interspersed.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > scattered loosely or strewn
bedrop1377
besprent?1567
strewed1603
strewn1730
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 321 It was bidropped with wratthe and wikked wille.
1855 Gilfillan Dryden Introd. 20 A tale..bedropt with the most flagrant falsehoods.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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