Bedaw

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To awake. ambitransitive, archaic

    "That one halt and that other draweth, There is no day which hem bedaweth, […]"

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"That one halt and that other draweth, There is no day which hem bedaweth, […]"

Etymology

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

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