bedrive

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English bidriven, from Old English bedrīfan (“to drive; beat; strike; assail; follow up; pursue; surround; cover”), from Proto-West Germanic *bidrīban, 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) (archaic, transitive) To drive or toss about; drive out, off, back, or away; defeat. (archaic, transitive) To effect; do; commit; perpetrate; experience. ==== Related terms ==== bedrift == Danish == === Etymology === From be- (“on”) +‎ drive (“to drive”), calque of Middle Low German bedrîven and German betreiben. Compare also Swedish bedriva, English bedrive, Dutch bedrijven. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bedriːvə/, [b̥eˈd̥ʁiˀʋə], [b̥eˈd̥ʁiwˀʊ] === Verb === bedrive (past tense bedrev, past participle bedrevet, attributive common bedreven, attributive definite and plural bedrevne) (transitive) to do, engage in (e.g. research, politics) (transitive) to commit (an immoral act) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== bedrift === References === “bedrive” in Den Danske Ordbog