bide — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To bear; to endure; to tolerate.

   Usage

   • dialectal
   • Transitive

   Examples

   And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt

2. To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

   Examples

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   Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? / Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, / Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.

3. To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • dialectal
   • Intransitive

   Examples

   All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.

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   But Sir Thomas Kennedy bode little about his house in Maybole, chiefly because his lads and lasses loved most to remain at Culzean, where the cliffs are and the sea spreads wide, clattering pleasantly on the rocks, and with the birds blithely swirling and diving about it all the year round.

   John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.

4. To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • dialectal
   • Intransitive

   Examples

   And thither wending there that night they bode.

   "Bide here," he says, "and birl the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me."

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   It’s you, it’s you must go and I must bide.

5. To wait for; to await.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

Verb

1. dwell

   Synonyms

   abidestay

   Broader terms

   staystay oncontinueremain

   Examples

   You can stay with me while you are in town

   stay a bit longer — the day is still young