bedare
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- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
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bedare (third-person singular simple present bedares, present participle bedaring, simple past and past participle bedared or bedurst)
- (transitive) To defy.
- 1829, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Works of George Peele:
- Lets fall the fowl, and is emboldened / With eyes intentive to bedare the sun, […]
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From Middle Low German bedōren (“to fool”), derived from dōre (“fool”), from Proto-Germanic *dauzô. Compare German betören (“to bewitch”).
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bedare (imperative bedår, infinitive at bedåre, present tense bedårer, past tense bedårede, perfect tense har bedåret)
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