bedrive
English
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To drive or toss about; drive out, off, back, or away; defeat.
- (transitive) To effect; do; commit; perpetrate; experience.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bidriven inherited from Old English bedrīfan (follow up, drive, cover, strike, pursue, surround, beat, assail) prefix from English drive.
Origin
English
drive
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Orion drive English
- codrive English
- drivable English
- drive English
- driveable English
- driveaway English
- drivebolt English
- drivee English
- drivehead English
- driveless English
- drivelike English
- driveline English
- drivepipe English
- driver English
- driveshaft English
- driveshed English
- drivest English
- driveth English
- drivetime English
- drivetrain English
- driveway English
- driving English
- floppy diskette drive English
- fordrive English
- hyperdrive English
- microdrive English
- misdrive English
- multidrive English
- outdrive English
- overdrive English
- piledrive English
- redrive English
- spacedrive English
- stardrive English
- sterndrive English
- todrive English
- underdrive English
- war-drive English
- wardrive English
- draivi Finnish
- Drive German
- betreiben German
- treiben German
- bedrijven Dutch, Flemish
- drijven Dutch, Flemish
- misdrijf Dutch, Flemish
- драйв Russian
- drive Portuguese
- bedriva Swedish
- driva Swedish
- bedrīfan Old English
- bidriven Middle English
- driven Middle English
- drajvo Esperanto
- ไดรฟ์ Thai
- drayb Cebuano
- bedriven Middle Dutch
- bedrīven Middle Low German
- bedriva Old Swedish
- 드라이브 Korean
- kalaiwa Hawaiian
- drive
- driver
- drivee
- todrive
- drivest
- redrive
- driveth
- codrive
- driving
- driveway
- fordrive
- outdrive
- misdrive
- wardrive
- drivable
- drivepipe
- war-drive
- driveable
- driveless
- stardrive
- drivebolt
- overdrive
- driveshed
- drivelike
- drivetime
- piledrive
- driveaway
- drivehead
- driveline
- underdrive
- sterndrive
- microdrive
- multidrive
- drivetrain
- spacedrive
- driveshaft
- hyperdrive
- Orion drive
- floppy diskette drive