different between bedrite vs bedrive

English

Etymology 1

From bed +? rite.

Alternative forms

• bedright

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?d??a?t/

Noun

bedrite (plural bedrites)

1. The duty or privilege of the marriage bed.

Etymology 2

From be- +? drite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??d?a?t/

Verb

bedrite (third-person singular simple present bedrites, present participle bedriting, simple past bedrote or bedrit, past participle bedritten)

1. (transitive, obsolete, Britain dialectal) To befoul with ordure; bedirt.

Anagrams

• debrite

English

Etymology

From Middle English bidriven, from Old English bedr?fan (“to drive; beat; strike; assail; follow up; pursue; surround; cover”), equivalent to be- +? drive. Cognate with Dutch bedrijven (“to commit, perpetrate”), German betreiben (“to operate, conduct, pursue”), Swedish bedriva (“to manage, carry on, prosecute”).

Verb

bedrive (third-person singular simple present bedrives, present participle bedriving, simple past bedrove, past participle bedriven)

1. (transitive) To drive or toss about; drive out, off, back, or away; defeat.
2. (transitive) To effect; do; commit; perpetrate; experience.

Related terms

• bedrift

Danish

Etymology

From be- (“on”) +? drive (“to drive”), calque of Middle Low German bedr?ven and German betreiben. Compare also Swedish bedriva, {[cog|en|bedrive}}, Dutch bedrijven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bedri?v?/, [b?e?d??i???], [b?e?d??iw??]

Verb

bedrive (past tense bedrev, past participle bedrevet, attributive common bedreven, attributive definite and plural bedrevne)

1. (transitive) to do, engage in (e.g. research, politics)
2. (transitive) to commit (an immoral act)

Inflection

Derived terms

• bedrift

References

• “bedrive” in Den Danske Ordbog