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bedaws

bedaws is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bedaw.

Meaning of bedaw

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

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What is bedaws the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bedaws is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bedaw.

Words near bedaws in the dictionary

  1. bedaughtered
  2. bedaw
  3. Bedawi Arabic
  4. bedawin
  5. bedawins
  6. bedaws
  7. bedaya
  8. bedayas
  9. bedaze
  10. bedazed
  11. bedazement

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