bide
verb
ˈbīd 
bode ˈbōd or bided; bided; biding
or bided; bided; biding transitive verb
1
past tense usually bided : to wait for —used chiefly in the phrase bide one's time
is biding his time before asking for a raise
2
archaic : withstand
two men … might bide the winter storm
W. C. Bryant
W. C. Bryant3
chiefly dialectal : to put up with : tolerate
… couldn't bide children on his place … J. W. Riley
J. W. Rileyintransitive verb
1
: to continue in a state or condition
bide still a moment
2
: to wait awhile : tarry
3
: to continue in a place : sojourn
bide in a cabin
bider noun
Synonyms
- abide
- continue
- endure
- hold on
- hold up
- keep up
- last
- perdure
- persist
- remain
- run on
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
how long are you going to bide in this unhappy marriage? at my advanced age I simply cannot bide young children
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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
Etymology
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.
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
Kids Definition
bide
verb
ˈbīd
bode
ˈbōd
or bided ˈbī-dəd
; bided; biding : to wait or wait for
bide a while
bided
verb
1
as in remained
to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state how long are you going to bide in this unhappy marriage? Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- remained
- stayed
- continued
- endured
- persisted
- abode
- survived
- lasted
- abided
- lingered
- run on
- held on
- perdured
- tarried
- prevailed
- kept up
- held up
- stuck around
- carried through
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- stopped
- finished
- passed
- ended
- concluded
- died
- terminated
- ceased
- quitted
- closed
- expired
- lapsed
- quit
- discontinued
- desisted
- left off
- wound up
- died (down)
- subsided
- waned
- abated
- winded up
- moderated
- ebbed
- let up
2
as in stood
chiefly dialect to put up with (something painful or difficult) at my advanced age I simply cannot bide young children Synonyms & Similar Words
- stood
- tolerated
- taken
- accepted
- handled
- stomached
- endured
- swallowed
- born
- absorbed
- abided
- pocketed
- brooked
- sustained
- met
- countenanced
- abode
- gone
- hacked
- supported
- sweat out
- stood for
- borne
- worn
- stuck out
- lived with
- sweated out
- acquiesced
- permitted
- suffered
- allowed
- capitulated
- toughed it out
- lumped (it)
- respected
- reconciled (to)
- agreed (with or to)
- submitted (to)
- consented (to)
- yielded (to)
- assented (to)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- refused
- rejected
- dismissed
- declined
- spurned
- resisted
- fought
- repudiated
- opposed
- contested
- avoided
- combated
- escaped
- evaded
- missed
- bypassed
- eluded
- combatted
- dodged
- circumvented
- turned down
- refrained (from)
- abstained (from)
- forborne
3
as in waited
to remain in place in readiness or expectation of something I promise you that if you bide yet a little longer, all will come to pass just as you desire Synonyms & Similar Words
- waited
- stayed
- remained
- awaited
- lingered
- held on
- bided one's time
- sat tight
- hung around
- held one's breath
- expected
- stuck around
- cooled one's heels
- tarried
- anticipated
- stood by
- watched (for)
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