bedraw
verbUK /bɪˈdɹɔː/ · US /bɪˈdɹɔ/
Etymology 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”).
- 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:
- "Oh, how grand those rays! they seem to bedraw earth to Heaven!"1875, THE BRITISH FLAC & CHRISTIAN SENTINEL: