bedaw
verbEtymology From Middle English bedauen, bedaghen (“to become day, dawn”); equivalent to be- + daw (“to dawn, to awake”). More at daw.
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Ambitransitive, Archaic To awake.
- That one halt and that other draweth, There is no day which hem bedaweth, […]1857, original 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins:
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