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bide
/ baɪd /
verb
- archaic.intr to continue in a certain place or state; stay
- archaic.intr to live; dwell
- archaic.tr to tolerate; endure
- bide a weeto stay a little
- bide byto abide by
- bide one's timeto wait patiently for an opportunity
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- bider noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bide1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bide1
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Idioms and Phrases
- bide one's time, to wait for a favorable opportunity:
He wanted to ask for a raise, but bided his time.
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Example Sentences
While Democrats bide their time, Republicans are already spending time and building operations in the Hawkeye State.
Rather, one would think now would be an ideal moment for a grateful ally to ramp it down and bide their time.
Bide your time with some of the most impressive public displays of Les Miserables love.
If a culture has to be grown, then you have to bide your time while cell division takes its course.
The bloodthirsty Young Turks of Bohane bide their time, waiting in the shadows to shank and supplant their revelry-addled elders.
That's going to make things lots easier for my scheme, 'but I'll 'bide a wee' before I spring it on the Pater.
He was perfectly contented to bide his time, remembering that adage: "All things come to him who waits."
I am not sure that she thinks of me otherwise than as a grown-up brotherbut I will bide my time.
Let him tak a spring on his ain fiddle, says a proverb that illustrates the coolness with which Donald will bide his time.
But he could hardly have kept it up, lest the wind should change and it should bide with him, as the old women say.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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