bedrive

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To drive or toss about; drive out, off, back, or away; defeat. archaic,transitive
    — 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.
  2. To effect; do; commit; perpetrate; experience. archaic,transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

bedrives present,singular,third-person bedriving participle,present bedrove past bedriven participle,past

词汇关系

相关词
bedrift

词源

From Middle English bidriven, from Old English bedrīfan (“to drive; beat; strike; assail; follow up; pursue; surround; cover”), from Proto-West Germanic *bidrīban, equivalent to be- + drive. Cognate with Dutch bedrijven (“to commit, perpetrate”), German betreiben (“to operate, conduct, pursue”), Swedish bedriva (“to manage, carry on, prosecute”).
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