bedaw

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English

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Etymology

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

Verb

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bedaw (third-person singular simple present bedaws, present participle bedawing, simple past and past participle bedawed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To awake.
    • 1857, original 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins:
      That one halt and that other draweth, There is no day which hem bedaweth, []

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