bedizen
10 synonyms for bedizen, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To decorate someone or something in a flashy, over-the-top way.
Synonyms
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Synonyms by Meaning
1. verb
To decorate someone or something in a flashy, over-the-top way.
“Twenty-four hours later we were both in the vast halls of the Winter Palace in full uniform, as bedizened with gold as a nouveau riche’s drawing-room.”
Etymology
Involves the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁epi. Formed from be- (intensifying prefix) and dizen (“to attire, dress, especially showily”), with dizen derived from dialectal dize (“to put (tow) on a distaff”), probably from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a dis...
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