bedoven

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.
   • Alle hir body..semyd be dowen in blood — Life of Saint Christina Mirabilis of Saint Trudons (All her body seemed bedoven in blood.)
   • The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dank deep was every sike. — A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512
   • 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), ebook edition, →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.

Etymology

Past participle of obsolete beduiven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈdoː.və(n)/
• Hyphenation: be‧do‧ven

Adjective

bedoven (not comparable)

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