the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being submerged or action of submerging > submerge [verb (transitive)] > in or as in a flood
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bedrown1608
1608 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Ivdithi. 19 in J. Sylvester Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) You Tyrant..Who hath bedround the world with bloud.