Etymology

bedraw

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Today it means: To draw aside or away. Full definition →

Middle English bedrawen ← Old English bedragan ← Proto-West Germanic *bidragan
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  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*bidragan
  2. Old English · inherited frombedragan“to draw aside, seduce”
  3. Middle English · inherited frombedrawen
  4. English todaybedraw

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”).

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