Bedeck

Definition: Bedeck

Bedeck

Verb

1. Decorate; "deck the halls with holly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bedeck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Synonyms: Bedeck

Ornament

Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate.

Crosswords: Bedeck

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, trim, water down). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زين (apparel, deck, dress, enhance, figure, gem, grace, hang, invest, ornament, paint, pattern, pipe, plate, prettify, prink, smarten, trick, trim, varnish), ‏زخرف (adorn, deck, decorate, do, embellish, embellishment, emboss, embroider, enrich, flourish, garnish, grace, illuminate, illustrate, lard, ornament, ornamentation, string, trace, trick, trick out, trick up, trim), ‏جمل (beautify, camel, conclude, embellish, enhance, finalize, garnish, improve, ornament, outline, precis, prettify, pretty, refine, smarten, sum up, summarize, totalize, varnish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

окичвам (adorn). (various references)

Czech

ovìsit (hang with). (various references)

French

orner, embellir (beautify). (various references)

German

schmücken (adorn, adornment, array, attire, blazon, decorate, drape, embellish, emblazon, gild, ornament, spangle, to adorn, to blazon, to decorate, to emblazon, to spangle, trim). (various references)

Greek 

φοπτώνω με στολίδια. (various references)

Hungarian

beborít (clothe, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, mantle, overcast, overlaid, overlay, to cloak, to coat, to cope, to deck, to do over, to encrust, to enfold, to engulf, to enshroud, to envelop, to overlay, to weather-board, to wrap). (various references)

Italian

ornare (adorn, decorate, embellish, garnish, ornament). (various references)

Manx

jesheenaghey (adorn, adornment, decorate, dress, embellish, emblazon, garnish, painting, painting trade, prank, preen, renovation, set, titivate). (various references)

Pig Latin

edeckbay.(various references)

Portuguese

adornar (adorn, attire, bejewel, blazon, decorate, fig, gild, grace, illuminate, lard, ornament, prank, purl, set). (various references)

Romanian

acoperi (adorn, cap, cloak, conceal, cover, deck, defilade, defray, disguise, Harbor, harbour, hide, hood, mantle, obfuscate, overgrow, overlap, overlay, overspread, paint, pepper, protect, roof, sheathe, shelter, sow, span, straw, suffuse, top, varnish, veil), împodobi (adorn, array, beautify, caparison, deck, deck out, decorate, drape, dress, embellish, encrust, feather, fig, fig out, fringe, garnish, gild, grace, hang with, ornament, pink, prank, robe, set, smarten up, trap, trim). (various references)

Russian 

украшать (adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, decorating, embellish, garnish, gild, ornament, prettify, set off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

okititi (ornament). (various references)

Spanish

adornar (adorn, array, decorate, doll up, embellish, embroider, festoon, garnish, garnishee, grace, hang, lard, ornament, set off, set out, titivate, trap, trim). (various references)

Swedish

pryda (adorn, array, deck, decorate, drape, embellish, enrich, garnish, glorify, grace, ornament). (various references)

Thai

ประ�"ับประ�"า. (various references)

Turkish

bezemek (adorn, bedight, decorate, trick out, trick up), süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedight, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, figure, flourish, garnish, gild, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, smarten, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, trim, zing up, zip, zip up), donatmak (arm, attire, bedight, catch up, damask, deck out, decorate, equip, furnish, gird, invest, ornament, outfit, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, rig out, turn out). (various references)

Ukrainian

прикрашати (adorn, apparel, beautify, bespread, brighten, caparison, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, dress out, embellish, embroider, flatter, garnish, gloss over, grace, needle, ornament, ornamentalize, prettify, set forth, smug, sugar coat, trim, trim up, varnish), прибирати (char, clean up, deck, decorate, do out, put away, rid, smarten, tidy). (various references)

Welsh

trwsio (dress, mend, repair, trim), addurno (adorn, bedizen, decorate, ornament). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bedeck": bedecked, bedecking, bedecks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bedeck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badak, Badescu, Badock, beadgc, Bediako, Beecke, Benecke, Bereczky, bleddick, Bodek, bodick, Bodypck, Budoch, Fedeco, Newdick, Zedek. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: becked.

-2 letters: beck, cede, deck, deke, eked.

-3 letters: bed, bee, cee, deb, dee, eke.

-4 letters: be, de, ed.

+1 letter: bedecks.

+2 letters: beckoned, bedecked, bemocked, benedick, bickered, bucketed, feedback, reedbuck.

+3 letters: bechalked, becloaked, bedecking, beflecked, benedicks, blackened, bracketed, bucklered, feedbacks, reedbucks.

+4 letters: barebacked, belowdecks, bullnecked.

+5 letters: backpedaled, biofeedback, bodychecked, paperbacked, unbracketed.