Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To provide or adorn with jewels.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb adorn or decorate with precious stones

Etymologies

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From be- (“about, all over”) +‎ jewel.

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Examples

  • Asprey is the official jewellery Partner of the Orange British Academy Film Awards 2010 and will 'bejewel' many of the stars at the Awards on Sunday evening.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Asprey is the official jewellery Partner of the Orange British Academy Film Awards 2010 and will 'bejewel' many of the stars at the Awards on Sunday evening.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The conflict minerals of 2010 are no longer the diamonds that bejewel brides throughout the West, but the minerals that make up the components in our laptops, cell phones, and MP3 players.

    Michael Shtender-Auerbach: The Top 5 Socio-Political Business Risks for 2010 2010

  • The conflict minerals of 2010 are no longer the diamonds that bejewel brides throughout the West, but the minerals that make up the components in our laptops, cell phones, and MP3 players.

    The Top 5 Socio-Political Business Risks for 2010 2010

  • At the time of her death, she was a research associate at the Brandeis Women's Institute at Brandeis University, and was completing a series of poems she described as "my dialogue with the tales of the Hasadim, those amazing wisdom stories that bejewel the Jewish mystical movement of 18th century Eastern Europe."

    We Remember - Lois Levin Roisman, 1938 - 2008 2010

  • Polka Dot Cottage » Buttons can bejewel you » Print

    Polka Dot Cottage » Buttons can bejewel you » Print 2009

  • Lying in a crypt, you gather your strangeness, waiting to bejewel another city with your ecstasy.

    Sacred Texts 2007

  • In 1936 a gardener from Formosa (today's Taiwan) took a couple of specimens to Hawaii to bejewel her rock garden and touched off an environmental emergency that still hasn't ended.

    Attack Of the Aliens 2007

  • Almighty God is the education and training of children, young plants of the Abhá Paradise, so that these children, fostered by grace in the way of salvation, growing like pearls of divine bounty in the shell of education, will one day bejewel the crown of abiding glory.

    A Compilation on Bahá’í Education Universal House of Justice

  • There are none of the magnificent phrases which bejewel “Lear”; little of high wisdom, even in the pages which are indubitably Shakespeare's, and no characterization worth mentioning.

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

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