bedraw

Meanings

verbbedraw (third-person singular simple present bedraws, present participle bedrawing, simple past bedrew, past participle bedrawn)

present singular third person bedraws · participle present bedrawing · past bedrew · participle past bedrawn

dialectalraretransitiveTo draw aside or away.
"Oh, how grand those rays! they seem to bedraw earth to Heaven!"
1875, THE BRITISH FLAC & CHRISTIAN SENTINEL
1 more example
Become, be with, be helping me; Bespouse, bedraw, be make-me see.
2010, Jordan Spencer Cunningham, Bobby Robertson, Timothy Brooks, The New Ipf Anthology of Fine Literature
dialectalraretransitiveTo draw away; seduce; deceive.

Origin

Proto-West Germanic*bidragan
Old Englishbedragan“to draw aside, seduce”
Middle Englishbedrawen
Englishbedraw

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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