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BESTRIDE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: bestrid    , bestridden    , bestrode   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get up on the back of

Example:

mount a horse

Synonyms:

bestride; climb on; get on; hop on; jump on; mount; mount up

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "bestride" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bestride"):

remount (mount again)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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