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1. : to ride, sit, or stand astride : straddle. 2. : to tower over : dominate. the bloated bureaucracy that bestrides us all Edward Ney. 3. archaic : to stride across. Examples of bestride in a Sentence. a giant that bestrode the river.
BESTRIDE definition: 1. to sit or stand with a leg on either side of an object or animal: 2. to sit or stand with a leg…. Learn more.
BESTRIDE meaning: 1. to sit or stand with a leg on either side of an object or animal: 2. to sit or stand with a leg…. Learn more.
To bestride something means to be the most powerful and important person or thing in it.
Bestride definition: to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.. See examples of BESTRIDE used in a sentence.
1. To sit or stand on with the legs astride; straddle. 2. To dominate by position; tower over: "Hitler's ghost, the specter that ... bestrides mid-twentieth-century history" (Economist). 3. Archaic To step or stride across. [Middle English bistriden, from Old English bestrīdan : be-, be- + strīdan, to mount a horse; see stride .]
bestride. Other forms: bestrode; bestriding; bestrides; bestridden; bestrid; bestrided. Definitions of bestride. verb. get up on the back of. synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up. see more.
