Meaning

2 senses

  1. (archaic, transitive)To drive or toss about; drive out, off, back, or away; defeat.

  2. (archaic, transitive)To effect; do; commit; perpetrate; experience.

Origin

From Middle English bidriven, from Old English bedrīfan (“to drive; beat; strike; assail;

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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Forms

bedrives, bedriving, bedrove, bedriven
Base formbedrive · to bedrive
3rd person singularbedrives
Present participlebedriving
Past simplebedrove
Past participlebedriven

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybedrive
he, she, itbedrives

Past simpleLesson

all personsbedrove

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bedriven
he, she, ithas bedriven

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bedrive

Word family

1 related words
Relatedbedrift

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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