Bedrive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bedrive is a verb meaning (archaic, transitive) To drive or toss about; drive out, off, back, or away; defeat.
Meaning
(archaic, transitive) To drive or toss about; drive out, off, back, or away; defeat.
More Meanings
- (archaic, transitive) To effect; do; commit; perpetrate; experience.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- bedrives
- bedriving
- bedrove
- bedriven
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fordrive, drive, outdrive, dreave, propulse, depulse.
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