BESTRIDE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected forms: bestrid , bestridden , bestrode

Present simple: I / you / we / they bestride ... he / she / it bestrides

Past simple: betrode

Past participle: bestrid /bestridden /bestrode

-ing form: bestriding

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