verb
- to smear or cover with a sticky or dirty substance
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- The children bedaubed their faces with chocolate frosting.
- Rain had bedaubed the windows with mud and dirt.
- The artist bedaubed the canvas with thick layers of paint.
- Workers bedaubed the fence with fresh tar.
- She accidentally bedaubed her dress with paint while decorating.
- The protesters bedaubed the statue with red paint.