bide
bide Lexical Profile
bide Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To remain or stay in a place or state, or to wait patiently for a favorable opportunity (now used chiefly in the phrase 'bide one's time').
"The clever chess player decided to bide her time until her opponent made a critical mistake."
Scottish To endure, tolerate, or bear an unpleasant person, situation, or condition (also used in northern English dialects and archaically).
"He could no longer bide the relentless noise of the city and moved back to the countryside."
Word Nuance & Usage
In contemporary standard English, "bide" is almost exclusively encountered in the fixed idiom "bide one's time" (to wait patiently for an opportunity), where the regular past tense "bided" is preferred over the older irregular form "bode".
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English bīdan ('to remain, wait, dwell'), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeydʰ- ('to trust, confide, persuade').