bedraw

bedraw

English

Etymology

From Middle English bedrawen, from Old English bedragan (“to draw aside, seduce”), from Proto-Germanic *bidraganą, equivalent to be- +‎ draw. Cognate with Scots bedraw, bydraw (“to draw aside, supersede”), Dutch bedragen (“to total, amount to”), German betragen (“to amount to”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː

Verb

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

1. (transitive, rare, dialectal) To draw aside or away.
   • 2010, Jordan Spencer Cunningham, Bobby Robertson, Timothy Brooks, The New Ipf Anthology of Fine Literature:

     Become, be with, be helping me; Bespouse, bedraw, be make-me see.

   • 1875, THE BRITISH FLAC & CHRISTIAN SENTINEL:

     "Oh, how grand those rays! they seem to bedraw earth to Heaven!"

2. (transitive, rare, dialectal) To draw away; seduce; deceive.

Anagrams

• beward, dawber