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bedaw

bedaw verb: to awake.

Verb

bedaw (third-person singular simple present bedaws, present participle bedawing, simple past and past participle bedawed)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To awake.
    • That one halt and that other draweth, There is no day which hem bedaweth, […]1857, original 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins

Forms of bedaw

third-person singular presentbedaws
present participlebedawing
past participlebedawed
pastbedawed

Origin of bedaw

From Middle English bedauen, bedaghen (“to become day, dawn”); equivalent to be- + daw (“to dawn, to awake”). More at daw.

Questions about bedaw

What does bedaw mean?
Bedaw means to awake.
What part of speech is bedaw?
Bedaw is a verb.
What is the past tense of bedaw?
The past tense of bedaw is bedawed.

Words near bedaw in the dictionary

  1. bedaubed
  2. bedaubeth
  3. bedaubing
  4. bedaubs
  5. bedaughtered
  6. bedaw
  7. Bedawi Arabic
  8. bedawin
  9. bedawins
  10. bedaws
  11. bedaya

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