bedew
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“Do not speak so closely to another person with such enthusiasm that you bedew the other man with your spittle,” he said, from a safe distance.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2019
Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2017
It’s a little cooler today, but possibly rainier: Scattered showers may bedew us, with a high of 70.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2015
To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
The charming hills that round it rise, Your latest hours, and mine await; And when your Poet Horace dyes; There the deep sigh thy poet-friend shall mourn, And pious tears bedew his glowing urn.
From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Wallace Jackson
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