Home › Words › B › bedawbedawbedaw means to awake.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, bedaw ranks #1,202 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Middle English bedauen, bedaghen (“to become day, dawn”); equivalent to be- + daw (“to dawn, to awake”). More at daw.verbTo awake.e.g.“That one halt and that other draweth, There is no day which hem bedaweth, […]” — 1857, original 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.awaken 67% match — To cause to become awake. vs bedaw →wakken 67% match — To waken. vs bedaw →awakened 66% match — Having been woken up. vs bedaw →dawing 66% match — Dawn, daybreak. vs bedaw →awaker 65% match — One who awakes. vs bedaw →reawaken 65% match — To wake after an extended period of sleep. vs bedaw →adaw 64% match — To daunt, overcome, subdue. vs bedaw →unawakened 63% match — Not awakened; sleeping; unconscious; unaware. vs bedaw →