Bepuddle

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To cover or fill with puddles.

    "It was Saturday afternoon and raining—raining suds. State street was bepuddled from end to end—rivulets ran among its paving stones and torrents in its gutters."

  2. 2
    To soil or debase. broadly

    "But this Antichrist has, where she rules, put all out of order ; and no wonder, for she has bepuddled the word of God ; no wonder, then, I say, if the foundations of the world be out of course."

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"It was Saturday afternoon and raining—raining suds. State street was bepuddled from end to end—rivulets ran among its paving stones and torrents in its gutters."

Etymology

From be- + puddle.

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