bide
verb
or bided; bided; biding transitive verb
W. C. Bryant J. W. Rileyintransitive verb
Synonyms
- abide
- continue
- endure
- hold on
- hold up
- keep up
- last
- perdure
- persist
- remain
- run on
Example Sentences
Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022 Nor will viruses bide their time for 14 minutes and 59 seconds before launching themselves noseward at 15 minutes on the dot. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 June 2022 Then bide your time because these kinds of crushes usually wane. Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 1 June 2022 Brown and Murray weren’t content to bide their time or wait their turn. Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2022 Disfluencies are involuntary disruptions in the normal flow of speech that can help us bide our time, collect our thoughts or self-correct. cleveland, 6 Apr. 2022 The first flight of the SpaceX Starship with Super Heavy booster will have to bide its time a little longer. Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Mar. 2022 Like several other influential Republicans, McCarthy assesses that the best approach to Trump is to bide time, appease him, and hope his relevance fades away as more pressing issues take center stage. Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, 14 Feb. 2022 Readers are brought face to face with the crushing loss of loved ones, hatred from long-time neighbors, love that must bide its time, and age-old questions about evil. Sarah Schutte, National Review, 13 Feb. 2022 See More Word History
Middle English biden "to stay, linger, wait expectantly, hope for, undergo," going back to Old English bīdan, past bād, bidon, past participle biden, going back to Germanic *bīðan- (whence also Old Saxon bīdan "to wait, stand ready, hold out," Old High German bītan "to wait, expect," Old Norse bíða "to wait for, suffer, undergo," Gothic beidan "to wait for, endure"), perhaps going back to Indo-European *bhei̯d- "entrust, trust" — more at faith entry 1
Note: The argument has been made, most notably by Émile Benveniste (Le vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes, Paris, 1969, tome 1, pp. 119-20), that in Germanic an older sense "place one's trust in something" developed into "expect with confidence, wait for" and then "undergo, endure"—though this hypothesis has not been universally accepted.
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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Synonyms & Similar Words
- remain
- continue
- last
- stay
- persist
- endure
- survive
- run on
- linger
- prevail
- abide
- hold on
- tarry
- keep up
- hold up
- perdure
- stick around
- carry through
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- stop
- die
- pass
- finish
- terminate
- cease
- end
- quit
- close
- expire
- conclude
- discontinue
- wind up
- die (down)
- lapse
- abate
- subside
- desist
- leave off
- moderate
- ebb
- wane
- let up
Synonyms & Similar Words
- stand
- endure
- tolerate
- accept
- take
- handle
- sustain
- bear
- absorb
- swallow
- stomach
- abide
- countenance
- meet
- wear
- sweat out
- go
- brook
- pocket
- hack
- support
- live with
- stick out
- stand for
- allow
- suffer
- acquiesce
- permit
- tough it out
- capitulate
- respect
- lump (it)
- reconcile (to)
- submit (to)
- yield (to)
- agree (with or to)
- consent (to)
- assent (to)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- refuse
- reject
- resist
- dismiss
- fight
- repudiate
- avoid
- escape
- decline
- combat
- spurn
- oppose
- evade
- contest
- miss
- turn down
- circumvent
- bypass
- elude
- dodge
- forbear
- refrain (from)
- abstain (from)
Synonyms & Similar Words
- wait
- stay
- await
- linger
- hold on
- remain
- sit tight
- bide one's time
- hold one's breath
- hang around
- expect
- stick around
- tarry
- anticipate
- stand by
- cool one's heels
- watch (for)