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What (who) is bide - definition
bide
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(bides, biding, bided)
If you bide your time, you wait for a good opportunity before doing something.
He was content to bide his time patiently, waiting for the opportunity to approach her.
PHRASE: V inflects
bide
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I. v. a.
1.
Endure, suffer, tolerate, bear, put up with, submit to, abide.
2.
Abide, await, wait for.
II. v. n.
1.
Dwell, abide, stay, have one's home.
2.
Remain, abide, wait, stay, lie still.
bide
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¦ verb archaic or dialect remain or stay in a certain place.
Phrases
bide one's time wait quietly for a good opportunity to do something.
Origin
OE bidan, of Gmc origin.
Examples of use of bide
1. All party activists had to do was go around gathering signatures and bide their time.
2. The exiled prime minister can thus afford to bide his time – and maybe plot his return.
3. The man who brought down the World Trade Center likes to bide his time.
4. Brown has the confident gravitas to bide his time with Cameron.
5. It was possible Ms Bhutto would agree to bide her time, positioning herself as natural successor to Gen Musharraf.