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Bestride vs Bestrode - What's the difference?

bestride | bestrode |

As verbs the difference between bestride and bestrode

is that bestride is to be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse while bestrode is past tense of bestride.

bestride

English

Verb

  • To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse.
  • (figuratively) To dominate.
  • * {{quote-book, author=William Shakespeare
    • , year=Circa 1599 , title=The Tragedy of Julius Caesar , passage=Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus. , section=}}

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    bestrode

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bestride)
    • English irregular simple past forms English irregular past participles