bestride

bestride is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over
2. transitive verb. To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.
3. verb. get up on the back of

   "mount a horse"

   Synonyms: mount

Synonyms

mount

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bestride:

bistered

Common word forms

bestrided, bestrides, bestriding

Words from these letters

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