Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bestride
Participle: bestrode; bestridden
Gerund: bestriding
Indicative
Present
| I | bestride |
| you | bestride |
| he;she;it | bestrides |
| we | bestride |
| you | bestride |
| they | bestride |
Perfect
| I | have bestrode; bestridden |
| you | have bestrode; bestridden |
| he;she;it | has bestrode; bestridden |
| we | have bestrode; bestridden |
| you | have bestrode; bestridden |
| they | have bestrode; bestridden |
Past
| I | bestrode |
| you | bestrode |
| he;she;it | bestrode |
| we | bestrode |
| you | bestrode |
| they | bestrode |
Pluperfect
| I | had bestrode; bestridden |
| you | had bestrode; bestridden |
| he;she;it | had bestrode; bestridden |
| we | had bestrode; bestridden |
| you | had bestrode; bestridden |
| they | had bestrode; bestridden |
Future
| I | will bestride |
| you | will bestride |
| he;she;it | will bestride |
| we | will bestride |
| you | will bestride |
| they | will bestride |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bestrode; bestridden |
| you | will have bestrode; bestridden |
| he;she;it | will have bestrode; bestridden |
| we | will have bestrode; bestridden |
| you | will have bestrode; bestridden |
| they | will have bestrode; bestridden |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bestride |
| you | bestride |
| he;she;it | bestride |
| we | bestride |
| you | bestride |
| they | bestride |
Perfect
| I | have bestrode; bestridden |
| you | have bestrode; bestridden |
| he;she;it | have bestrode; bestridden |
| we | have bestrode; bestridden |
| you | have bestrode; bestridden |
| they | have bestrode; bestridden |
Imperfect
| I | bestrode |
| you | bestrode |
| he;she;it | bestrode |
| we | bestrode |
| you | bestrode |
| they | bestrode |
Pluperfect
| I | had bestrode; bestridden |
| you | had bestrode; bestridden |
| he;she;it | had bestrode; bestridden |
| we | had bestrode; bestridden |
| you | had bestrode; bestridden |
| they | had bestrode; bestridden |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bestride |
| you | would bestride |
| he;she;it | would bestride |
| we | would bestride |
| you | would bestride |
| they | would bestride |
Perfect
| I | would have bestrode; bestridden |
| you | would have bestrode; bestridden |
| he;she;it | would have bestrode; bestridden |
| we | would have bestrode; bestridden |
| you | would have bestrode; bestridden |
| they | would have bestrode; bestridden |
Imperative
| you | bestride |
| we | Let's bestride |
| you | bestride |
Verbs similar to 'bestride'
betide,
destrie,
destripe,
restripe,
restrive,
stride,
abstrude,
begrime,
begripe,
beguide,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- straddle
- mount
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English bestriden, from Old English bestrīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *bistrīdan; equivalent to be- + stride. Compare Dutch bestrijden, German bestreiten. See: Dutch '
bestrijden', German, old spelling '
bestreiten'.
Verbs referencing "bestride"
German, old spelling
bestreiten.
Sample Sentences
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& thou were the truest frende to thy louar that euer bestrade hors
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"And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse" [1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XXI, Chapter xiii, leaf 430v:]
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But fleeter far the pinions of the Wind, / Which from Siberian caves the monarch freed, / And sent him forth, with squadrons of his kind, / And bade the Snow their ample backs bestride, / And to the battle ride. [1816, William Wordsworth, Composed in Recollection of the Expedition of the French into Russia, February 1816, lines 27–31:]
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The knightly Crusader bestrides a war-horse of heavy proportions , which he has suddenly reined in , as he waves on high a flag as a rallying sign for his followers. [1852, The Crystal Palace and Its Contents, page 139:]
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He threw in my way a piece of timber which I bestrided, and the waves tossed me to and fro till they cast me upon an island coast […] [1885, Richard Burton, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, published by private subscription, Vol. I edition, page 172:]
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Apart from the traffic that is originated within its own district, Doncaster is the hub of many important Eastern Region flows. [...] It bestrides busy routes to and from the Midlands and, of course, is a landmark on the East Coast trunk route between north and south. [1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 128:]
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[…] she would take the betrothal document from her father's chest of drawers and pore over the signature: Ezriel Babad. […] His signature seemed to bestride her own. [1967, Joseph Singer, Elaine Gottlieb, “Chapter 2”, in Farrar, Straus and Giroux, editor, The Manor, New York, translation of original by Isaac Bashevis Singer, part II, page 29:]
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Again I bestride the mitred, leather-winged steed. [1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 71:]
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He made out a stubby automobile bestriding the narrow road. [1998, Christopher Reich, Numbered Account, New York: Delacorte:]
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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus[…]. [c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act I Scene II:]
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He looked up again at the portrait of Big Brother. The colossus that bestrode the world! [1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:]
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You see, Jim Crow does it differently in Africa. His is a slow but tight and deadly squeeze. […] He bestrides this continent from Algiers to Cape Town, and the guns around his belt face east, west, south and north. [1962, Ezekiel Mphahlele, “Chapter 5”, in Frederick A. Praeger, editor, The African Image, New York, page 86:]
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Over the past two hundred years the English language has risen, seemingly irresistably, to its present position of world-bestriding supremacy. [1990, Anthony Paul, “Dutch Literature and the Translation Barrier”, in Bart Westerweel, Theo D'haen, editors, Something Understood: Studies in Anglo-Dutch Literary Translation, Amsterdam: Rodopi, page 65:]