bedighting

verb

present participle of bedight, archaic
as in habilitating

Related Words

Relevance

Dissimilar Words

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedighting
  1. furnishing
  2. tailoring
  3. outfitting
  4. equipping
  5. draping
  6. dressing down
  7. wrapping
Verb
  • Instead of negotiating bills, furnishing a space or dividing household responsibilities, renters can have a more predictable living arrangement and clearer expectations from the start.
    — Nathan Miller, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Costs would cover the design, construction, furnishing and equipping of the facility.
    — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of furnishing
Verb
  • That might mean tailoring the way the company tells its story or responds to a client’s questions.
    — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Changing course so close to the early-decision deadline can be difficult for applicants who have spent months tailoring their applications to a specific Cornell school, a distinctive part of the university's application process, according to Beaton.
    — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of tailoring
Verb
  • This includes the vessel’s design, hull construction, outfitting, and commissioning.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
  • As a condition of his federal-court sentence, Lewton is prohibited from outfitting or guiding hunters for a full year.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of outfitting
Verb
  • Kramer said the department is in the process of training and equipping more personnel with protective gear so the city can have doubled the number of responders in the field for future flooding.
    — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The new Congress can demonstrate its commitment to fulfilling its responsibilities by providing ordinary legislative oversight in the raising, maintaining, and equipping of the armed forces.
    — Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of equipping
Verb
  • The brand now follows the French scale and goes from 30 to 50, and product development took a classic and hands-on approach based on draping to assess how clothes sit and move on the body.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • About 12 minutes later, the array had fully extended, draping over about half of the larger but less capable legacy panel on the P4 truss.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of draping
Verb
  • Plus, the medium wash with light fading is great for dressing up or dressing down.
    — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 20 Oct. 2026
  • And there’s a useful distinction between dressing down to make someone else comfortable and being thoughtful about the signals your clothes send.
    — Morgan Sullivan, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of dressing down
Verb
  • The Chicks are currently wrapping their Taking the Long Way 20th anniversary tour in celebration of their album.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The building plays with massing by continuing the expression of the base along one side and wrapping the tower at the top.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of wrapping
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

bedighted
bedighting
bedights
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Bedighting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedighting. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

Copy Citation
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of valorous

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

How to Use 'Who' vs. 'Whom'

31 Useful Rhetorical Devices

More Commonly Misspelled Words

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'Affect' vs. 'Effect'
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 5

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

The Longest Long Words List

Even More Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

How to Use 'Who' vs. 'Whom'

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 5

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
woman sitting on floor holding book in front of her face on pink background
Famous Novels, Last Lines Quiz Needless to say, spoiler alert.
See All