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Meaning of bedrive | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

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

Examples

“But when every human help ceased, that they might trust more to divine help, they then first began to fight against their foes, who for many years before harried and plundered on them, and they then made a great slaughter among them, and bedrove them home, and had a victory.”
“And every man that standeth here would well bethink him what he hath done and bedriven in his days, he should the better have patience and pity on Reynart.”

CEFR level

B1
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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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