bedizen

Verb

Verb Forms: bedizened, bedizening, bedizens

To dress up or decorate in a gaudy, tasteless way.
decorate tastelessly
dress up garishly and tastelessly
To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.
To make (someone or something) dirty; to bedaub, to besmear, to dirty.

Examples

He would bedizen the board with flashy, low-value words instead of making smart plays.

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*h₁epi
From be- (intensifying prefix) + dizen (“to attire, dress, especially showily”). Dizen is derived from dialectal dize (“to put (tow) on a distaff”), probably from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”); further etymology unknown.

Synonyms

dizen, embellish

Scrabble Score: 19

bedizen: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
bedizen: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bedizen: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 21

bedizen: valid Words With Friends Word