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bedurst

bedurst is the simple past and past participle of bedare.

Meaning of bedare

Verb

bedare (third-person singular simple present bedares, present participle bedaring, simple past and past participle bedared or bedurst)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To defy.
    • Lets fall the fowl, and is emboldened / With eyes intentive to bedare the sun, […]1829, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Works of George Peele

Questions about bedurst

What is bedurst the simple past and past participle of?
Bedurst is the simple past and past participle of bedare.

Words near bedurst in the dictionary

  1. beduncing
  2. bedung
  3. bedunged
  4. bedunging
  5. bedungs
  6. bedurst
  7. Bedus
  8. bedust
  9. bedusted
  10. bedusting
  11. bedusts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedurst (page history and authors); bedare (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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