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Definition of bedeck verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

bedeck

verb
 
/bɪˈdek/
 
/bɪˈdek/
[usually passive] (literary)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they bedeck
 
/bɪˈdek/
 
/bɪˈdek/
he / she / it bedecks
 
/bɪˈdeks/
 
/bɪˈdeks/
past simple bedecked
 
/bɪˈdekt/
 
/bɪˈdekt/
past participle bedecked
 
/bɪˈdekt/
 
/bɪˈdekt/
-ing form bedecking
 
/bɪˈdekɪŋ/
 
/bɪˈdekɪŋ/
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  1. to decorate something/somebody with flowers, flags, precious stones, etc.
    • be bedecked (with/in something) The entrance hall was bedecked with trees and tropical plants.
    • The subject of the portrait is richly bedecked with jewellery.
    • a flower-bedecked balcony
See bedeck in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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