Contextualizebeta

bedraw

verb
/bɪˈdɹɔː/UK/bɪˈdɹɔ/US/bɪˈdɹɑ/

Etymology

From Middle English bedrawen, from Old English bedragan (“to draw aside, seduce”), from Proto-West Germanic *bidragan, equivalent to be- + draw. Cognate with Scots bedraw, bydraw (“to draw aside, supersede”), Dutch bedragen (“to total, amount to”), German betragen (“to amount to”).

  1. inherited from *bidragan✻
  2. inherited from bedragan — “to draw aside, seduce”
  3. inherited from bedrawen

Definitions

  1. To draw aside or away.

    • Become, be with, be helping me; Bespouse, bedraw, be make-me see.
    • "Oh, how grand those rays! they seem to bedraw earth to Heaven!"

  2. To draw away

    To draw away; seduce; deceive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bedraw. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA