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To adorn, especially in a cheap showy manner.

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Usage examples (29)
  • Hopefully they will not bedizen themselves for the formal dinner tomorrow.
  • We, whose fathers at least were Christians, who have grown up under those mediaeval arches even if we bedizen them with all the demons in
  • And Lily went up to her dressing-room; she wanted to look her best, to bedizen herself ... a little red on her lips, a little blue on her eyelids
  • I wasn't sure quite why I had resisted the array of baubles with which she had tried to further bedizen me; perhaps it was mere dislike of fussiness.
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