bedighting

verb

present participle of bedight, archaic
as in habilitating

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  1. furnishing
  2. tailoring
  3. outfitting
  4. equipping
  5. draping
  6. dressing down
  7. wrapping
Verb
  • Mix thrift store furniture with newer pieces rather than furnishing the entire room secondhand.
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
  • Clarkson is widely credited with furnishing Swift with the idea to re-record her first six albums.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 19 July 2026
Definition of furnishing
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  • The center also offers carpentry and tailoring training for local youth.
    — Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • New offensive coordinator Gordon Sammis is another key factor to TCU’s hopes of elevating as a program, and his primary job will be tailoring a system to the quarterbacks on the Horned Frogs’ roster.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 July 2026
Definition of tailoring
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  • In the mid-two-thousands, as Hollywood transitioned to digital filmmaking, IMAX began building and repurposing theatres across the country, outfitting them with digital-projection systems and slightly smaller, but still huge, screens.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 22 July 2026
  • Fashion houses are building themselves into the rituals surrounding competition — carrying trophies, outfitting teams and shaping the imagery through which victories are remembered.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 20 July 2026
Definition of outfitting
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  • Success will depend not only on attracting enough workers, but on equipping them with the right combination of industrial, digital and transferable skills to strengthen workforce readiness across the sector.
    — Elena Bou, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • All told, $875,000 worth of computer hardware loaned by Silicon Graphics, $350,000 worth from Apple and some $500,000 in additional hardware and software went into equipping both the set and off-stage control room.
    — Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026
Definition of equipping
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  • The visual essay below features virtuoso examples of the techniques that designers have used to replicate the ideals of classical dress over the years, including draping, pleating, twisting, and wrapping.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 16 July 2026
  • The spices mingle with the butter, draping over the tomato slices like savory sprinkles that crunch against their tender flesh.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 July 2026
Definition of draping
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  • Like Bezos, whose Sun Valley uniform has included jeans with T-shirts and polo shirts, many of the male tech executives are dressing down.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 10 July 2026
  • Hardline politicians slammed the president’s unorthodox choice of attire and activists accused him of double standards, where under Iran’s strict dress codes, ordinary people would be barred from dressing down.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
Definition of dressing down
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  • Divers focused Wednesday on collecting genetically diverse coral pieces, wrapping each in wet bubble wrap and placing them in coolers before sanitizing them and putting them in tanks at the hatchery.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
  • Vettese’s signature collection features the idea of wrapping oneself in luxurious cloth, with many possible ways to wrap and wear.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
Definition of wrapping
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