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bedraw

UK/bɪˈdɹɔː/US/bɪˈdɹɔ/

bedraw verb: to draw aside or away.

Verb

bedraw (third-person singular simple present bedraws, present participle bedrawing, simple past bedrew, past participle bedrawn)

  1. (dialectal, rare, transitive) To draw aside or away.
    • Become, be with, be helping me; Bespouse, bedraw, be make-me see.2010, Jordan Spencer Cunningham, Bobby Robertson, Timothy Brooks, The New Ipf Anthology of Fine Literature
    • "Oh, how grand those rays! they seem to bedraw earth to Heaven!"1875, THE BRITISH FLAC & CHRISTIAN SENTINEL
  2. (dialectal, rare, transitive) To draw away; seduce; deceive.

Forms of bedraw

third-person singular presentbedraws
present participlebedrawing
pastbedrew
past participlebedrawn

Origin of bedraw

From Middle English bedrawen, from Old English bedragan (“to draw aside, seduce”), from Proto-West Germanic *bidragan, equivalent to be- + draw. Cognate with Scots bedraw, bydraw (“to draw aside, supersede”), Dutch bedragen (“to total, amount to”), German betragen (“to amount to”).

Words that rhyme with bedraw

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Questions about bedraw

What does bedraw mean?
Bedraw means to draw aside or away.
What part of speech is bedraw?
Bedraw is a verb.
How do you pronounce bedraw?
Bedraw is pronounced /bɪˈdɹɔː/ (UK).
What is the past tense of bedraw?
The past tense of bedraw is bedrew.

Words near bedraw in the dictionary

  1. bedrape
  2. bedraped
  3. bedraperied
  4. bedrapes
  5. bedraping
  6. bedraw
  7. bedrawing
  8. bedrawn
  9. bedraws
  10. bedream
  11. bedreamed

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