Badest vs Wadest - What's the difference?
badest | wadest |
(archaic) (bid) (second person)
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(archaic) (wade)
to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
* Milton
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
to progress with difficulty
* Dryden
* Davenant
to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
To enter recklessly.
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between badest and wadest
is that badest is (archaic) (bid) (second person) while wadest is (archaic) (wade).As verbs the difference between badest and wadest
is that badest is (archaic) (bid) (second person) while wadest is (archaic) (wade).As an adjective badest
is .badest
English
Verb
(head)- I have done as thou badest me.
Adjective
(head)wadest
English
Verb
(head)wade
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wadan'', from (etyl) "to go". Cognates include Latin ''vadere "go, walk; rush" (whence English invade, evade).Verb
(wad)- So eagerly the fiend / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades , or creeps, or flies.
- After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.
- to wade through a dull book
- And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
- The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.
- wading swamps and rivers
- to wade into a fight or a debate
