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bade defiance to

bade defiance to is the simple past of bid defiance to.

Meaning of bid defiance to

Verb

bid defiance to (third-person singular simple present bids defiance to, present participle bidding defiance to, simple past bade defiance to, past participle bidden defiance to)

  1. (transitive) To defy.

Questions about bade defiance to

What is bade defiance to the simple past of?
Bade defiance to is the simple past of bid defiance to.

Words near bade defiance to in the dictionary

  1. baddy
  2. baddy two shoes
  3. baddy two-shoes
  4. baddy-two-shoes
  5. bade
  6. bade defiance to
  7. bade fair
  8. Badeau
  9. Badeaus
  10. Badefodiyaa
  11. Badega

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bade defiance to (page history and authors); bid defiance to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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