"bepuddle" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From be- + puddle.",
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          "ref": "1898, Frank W. Calkins, “A Girl's Exploit”, in The Conductor and Brakeman, volume 15:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1971, The Yale Literary Magazine - Volumes 141-142, page 41:",
          "text": "Now, black streets the rain bepuddles, and a communion of sorts can be happily re-embraced.",
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          "ref": "2011, Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons of Cyprus:",
          "text": "Several of the spigots had been left on or half on and the worm-eaten floor of the cavern was liberally bepuddled with country wine.",
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        "To cover or fill with puddles."
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          "ref": "1861, John Bunyan, The Works of John Bunyan, page 330:",
          "text": "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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        "To soil or debase."
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          "debase",
          "debase"
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        "(by extension) To soil or debase."
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  "word": "bepuddle"
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        },
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