different between bedaze vs bedare

English

Etymology

From Middle English *bedasen (found in past participle bedased, bedasyd (“dazed, dizzy”)), equivalent to be- +? daze.

Verb

bedaze (third-person singular simple present bedazes, present participle bedazing, simple past and past participle bedazed)

1. To cause to become dazed.

   On his first trip to the circus, he was bedazed by the myriad colours, sounds and smells.

English

Etymology

From be- +? dare.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

bedare (third-person singular simple present bedares, present participle bedaring, simple past and past participle bedared or bedurst)

1. (transitive) To defy.
   • 1829, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Works of George Peele:

     Lets fall the fowl, and is emboldened / With eyes intentive to bedare the sun, […]

Anagrams

• abreed, bardee, beader, bearde, beared, bedear, beread, breade

Danish

From Middle Low German bed?ren (“to fool”), derived from d?re (“fool”), from Proto-Germanic *dauzô. Compare German betören (“to bewitch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?e?d????]

Verb

bedare (imperative bedår, infinitive at bedåre, present tense bedårer, past tense bedårede, perfect tense har bedåret)

1. to charm, captivate
2. (archaic) to fool

Dutch

Verb

bedare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of bedaren