bedoven

• bedove

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”).

bedoven (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) drenched.
   • Life of Saint Christina Mirabilis of Saint Trudons

     Alle hir body […] semyd be dowen in blood. [All her body seemed bedoven in blood.]

   • A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512

     The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dank deep was every sike.

   • 2015, LT Wolf, The World King, ebook edition (fiction), →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.

Past participle of obsolete beduiven.

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

bedoven (not comparable)

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