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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dew.

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Examples

  • Together they conspired, and from the air and earth they sweated all sweetness till in a mist of their own love the leaves of the chaparral and the manzanita were dewed with the honey-dew.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • Together they conspired, and from the air and earth they sweated all sweetness till in a mist of their own love the leaves of the chaparral and the manzanita were dewed with the honey dew.

    CHAPTER XXXI 2010

  • In the darkness we could hear the work aloft going on as yards were run down, sheets let go, and sails dewed up and gasketed.

    CHAPTER XLVI 2010

  • The sword-like leaves of yellow flag stand highest – straight and sharp, still dewed with raindrops from an earlier shower.

    Country diary 2010

  • Her perfume—fresh-dewed roses—swirled into the air.

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

  • I thank under world 3 would suck so bad with out her in the movie. and top of all that taking her character name and cut a few pages out of the story im true fan of under world but dewed that mes up the movie

    Filmstalker: Underworld 3 story revealed 2006

  • Quiver mine eyelids and my eyes with tears are ever dewed:

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Sweat suddenly dewed her body, and she looked to see what was in the jar.

    Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007

  • A cold sweat dewed on the back of my neck and my hands turned to ice.

    Eclipse Meyer, Stephenie 2007

  • It was cold and dewed over with night mist, like a car parked on the street.

    Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007

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  • Made wet with dew.

    June 21, 2008

  • v., to divorce.

    June 21, 2008