bedaw

From Middle English bedauen, bedaghen (“to become day, dawn”); equivalent to be- +‎ daw (“to dawn, to awake”). More at daw.

bedaw (third-person singular simple present bedaws, present participle bedawing, simple past and past participle bedawed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To awake.
   • 1857, original 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins:

     That one halt and that other draweth, There is no day which hem bedaweth, […]

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