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Etymology

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be- +‎ medal

Verb

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bemedal (third-person singular simple present bemedals, present participle bemedaling or bemedalling, simple past and past participle bemedaled or bemedalled)

  1. (transitive) To award a medal to; to adorn with a medal.
    • 1998, Aaron Kramer, Saul Lishinsky, The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust, page 7:
      They had come, by Himmler's order, to bemedal the camp commandant of Terezin, which had played its special role so splendidly in achieving the final solution of the Jewish problem.