bemedal

English

Etymology

be- +‎ medal

Verb

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.