bide

Speech parts

1. bide - Verb

2. Bide - Proper noun

Meaning

To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.

To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.

To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.

To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.

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It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home. John Buchan

Those who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of self-defence. Yasser Arafat

Diet of bankrupts... To-day, Messer Paolo is to visit me, and to-morrow there will be the cardinal; and thus they think to befool me, at their pleasure. But I, on my side, am only dallying with them. I listen to all they have to say and bide my own time. Cesare Borgia

With one child you may walk; with two you may ride; when you have three, at home you must bide. English Proverb

Better bide the cooks nor the mediciners. Scottish Proverb

Hoordom and grace, can never bide in one place. Scottish Proverb

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