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bode

1  [bohd] verb, bod⋅ed, bod⋅ing.
Use bode in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to be an omen of; portend: The news bodes evil days for him.
2. Archaic. to announce beforehand; predict.
–verb (used without object)
3. to portend: The news bodes well for him.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME boden, OE bodian to announce, foretell (c. ON botha), deriv. of boda messenger, c. G Bote, ON bothi
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bode

2  [bohd]
–verb
a pt. of bide.

bide

  [bahyd] verb, bid⋅ed or bode; bid⋅ed or (Archaic) bid; bid⋅ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. Archaic. to endure; bear.
2. Obsolete. to encounter.
–verb (used without object)
3. to dwell; abide; wait; remain.
—Idiom
4. bide one's time, to wait for a favorable opportunity: He wanted to ask for a raise, but bided his time.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME biden, OE bīdan; c. OFris bīdia, OS bīdan, OHG bītan, ON bītha, Goth beidan, L fīdere, Gk peíthesthai to trust, rely < IE *bheidh-; the meaning appar. developed: have trust > endure > wait > abide > remain

Related forms:
bider, noun

Synonyms:
3. stay, linger, tarry.
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bide   (bīd)   
v.   bid·ed or bode (bōd), bid·ed, bid·ing, bides

v.   intr.

  1. To remain in a condition or state.

    1. To wait; tarry.

    2. To stay: bide at home.

    3. To be left; remain.

v.   tr.
past tense bided To await; wait for.

[Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan; see bheidh- in Indo-European roots.]
bode 1   (bōd)   
v.   bod·ed, bod·ing, bodes

v.   tr.

  1. To be an omen of: heavy seas that boded trouble for small craft.

  2. Archaic To predict; foretell.

v.   intr.
To be an omen; portend: The peace accord bodes well for the city under siege.

[Middle English boden, from Old English bodian, to announce; see bheudh- in Indo-European roots.]
bode 2   (bōd)   
v.  A past tense of bide.
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Word Origin & History

bide 
O.E. bidan "to stay, continue, live, remain," also "to trust, rely" (cognate of O.N. biða, O.Fris. bidia, Goth. beidan "to wait"), apparently from an extended stem of the root of O.E. biddan (see bid), the original sense of which was "to command," and "to trust." Perhaps the sense evolved in prehistoric times through "endure," and "endure a wait," to "to wait." Preserved in Scotland and northern England, replaced elsewhere by abide in all senses except to bide one's time.

bode 
O.E. bodian "announce, foretell," from boda "message," probably related to bid, from P.Gmc. *buthan (cf. O.S. gibod, Ger. gebot, O.N. boð). As a shortened form of forebode (usually evil), it dates from 1740.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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