bide
- Archaic. to endure; bear.
- Obsolete. to encounter.
- to dwell; abide; wait; remain.
- bide one's time, to wait for a favorable opportunity: He wanted to ask for a raise, but bided his time.
Origin of bide
Synonyms
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Contemporary Examples
Adele In 2013 Sediuk crashed the Grammy's, stealing Adam Levine's seat and biding his time.
An Analysis of Vitalii Sediuk’s Pranks (He’s the Guy Who Touched Brad Pitt)Amy Zimmerman
May 29, 2014
But know that the Kremlin is biding its time for fuller revenge.
He had been biding his time until the situation in the city calmed down in order to make his way back to Sudan.
Chandler is biding his time as he waits to see what other projects come up.
Apparently, Van der Sloot has been biding his time in a Lima jail cell, poring over love letters from a flood of women.
Historical Examples
We have been open, honourable enemies, and have always said we were biding our time.
Ireland as It IsRobert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
Her ears moved back and forth as she stood there biding some word from him.
When the West Was YoungFrederick R. Bechdolt
She felt that Haig was playing with Huntington, and biding his time.
The Heart of Thunder MountainEdfrid A. Bingham
Indifferent in appearance to what was going on, he was biding his time.
VictoryJoseph Conrad
Winters evidently suspected nothing, and was biding his time.
Three PeoplePansy
bide
- (intr) archaic, or dialect to continue in a certain place or state; stay
- (intr) archaic, or dialect to live; dwell
- (tr) archaic, or dialect to tolerate; endure
- bide a wee Scot to stay a little
- bide by Scot to abide by
- bide one's time to wait patiently for an opportunity
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for biding
bide
v.
Old English bidan "to stay, continue, live, remain," also "to trust, rely" (cognate with Old Norse biða, Old Saxon bidan, Old Frisian bidia, Middle Dutch biden, Old High German bitan, Gothic beidan "to wait"), apparently from PIE *bheidh-, an extended stem of one root of Old English biddan (see bid (v.)), the original sense of which was "to command," and "to trust" (cf. Greek peithein "to persuade," pistis "faith;" Latin fidere "to trust," foedus "compact, treaty," Old Church Slavonic beda "need"). Perhaps the sense evolved in prehistoric times through "endure," and "endure a wait," to "to wait." Preserved in Scotland and northern England, replaced elsewhere by abide in all senses except to bide one's time. Related: Bided; biding.