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Aiding vs Biding - What's the difference?

aiding | biding |

As verbs the difference between aiding and biding

is that aiding is while biding is .

As nouns the difference between aiding and biding

is that aiding is the act of one who aids or assists while biding is an awaiting; expectation.

aiding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who aids or assists.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • aidings and abettings of every bad inclination in the popular mind

    biding

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) biding, bydyng, equivalent to .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An awaiting; expectation.
  • *2007 , Debrena Jackson Gandy, All the Joy You Can Stand :
    • I was biding time. And my biding was making me bitter.
  • (archaic) Residence; habitation
  • * Hakluyt
    • They brought us to their bidings about two miles from the harbour.
  • *1776 , Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore :
    • At Antwerp has my constant biding been, [...]

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

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