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bestridden

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be⋅stride

  [bi-strahyd]
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–verb (used with object), -strode or -strid, -strid⋅den or -strid, -strid⋅ing.
1. to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
2. to step over or across with long strides.
3. to stand or tower over; dominate.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME bestriden, OE bestrīdan. See be-, stride
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be·stride   (bĭ-strīd')   
tr.v.   be·strode (-strōd'), be·strid·den (-strĭd'n), be·strid·ing, be·strides

  1. To sit or stand on with the legs astride; straddle.

  2. To dominate by position; tower over: "Hitler's ghost, the specter that ... bestrides mid-twentieth-century history" (Economist).

  3. Archaic To step or stride across.


[Middle English bistriden, from Old English bestrīdan : be-, be- + strīdan, to mount a horse; see stride.]
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