bedrift

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verb

To drift about; drift around.

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Meanings

verbbedrift (third-person singular simple present bedrifts, present participle bedrifting, simple past and past participle bedrifted)

present singular third person bedrifts · participle present bedrifting · participle past bedrifted · past bedrifted

  1. ambitransitiveTo drift about; drift around.

    Yet to him a new Madonna For the baby-boy who nestled On her bosom, all bedrifted With her yellow hair, [...]

    1918, Katharine Lee Bates, The retinue, and other poems
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    The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly bedrifted hither and thither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?

    1909, Thomas Carlyle, Hilaire Belloc, The French revolution: a history

    [...] That season were singing aloud round my shield. When the hollow-wrought sun-disc that Frodis' arm holdeth With blood was bedrifted before the ring's lord, [...]

    2011, Anonymous, William Morris, Eirkr Magnusson, The Eyrbyggja Saga and The Story of the Heath-Slayings

Origin

From be- (“about, around”) + drift.

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APA

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MLA

“bedrift.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedrift. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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