Usually means: Stand astride over; dominate physically.
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  1. bestride: Merriam-Webster
  2. bestride: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bestride: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bestride: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bestride: Vocabulary.com
  6. bestride: Wordnik
  7. bestride: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bestride: Wiktionary
  9. bestride: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bestride: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bestride: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bestride, bestride: Dictionary.com
  13. Bestride: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bestride: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bestride: Rhymezone
  16. Bestride: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bestride: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. bestride: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bestride: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bestride: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bestride: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse.
verb:  (transitive) To stride over, or across.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To dominate.

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