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bedriven

bedriven is the past participle of bedrive.

Meaning of bedrive

Verb

bedrive (third-person singular simple present bedrives, present participle bedriving, simple past bedrove, past participle bedriven)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To drive or toss about; drive out, off, back, or away; defeat.
    • But when every human help ceased, that they might trust more to divine help, they then first began to fight against their foes, who for many years before harried and plundered on them, and they then made a great slaughter among them, and bedrove them home, and had a victory.1852, Alfred (King of England), The whole works of King Alfred the Great
  2. (archaic, transitive) To effect; do; commit; perpetrate; experience.
    • And every man that standeth here would well bethink him what he hath done and bedriven in his days, he should the better have patience and pity on Reynart.1889, Henry Morley, Early prose romances

Questions about bedriven

What is bedriven the past participle of?
Bedriven is the past participle of bedrive.

Words near bedriven in the dictionary

  1. bedriveled
  2. bedriveling
  3. bedrivelled
  4. bedrivelling
  5. bedrivels
  6. bedriven
  7. bedrives
  8. bedriving
  9. bedrizzle
  10. bedrizzled
  11. bedrizzles

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