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bade

[bad] / bæd /
VERB
offer money or services
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


VERB
say
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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One fine day they bade goodbye to their families and set off upstream in a canoe, promising to return with the rains.

From Literature

Some visitors were pictured sobbing as they bade the bears goodbye.

From BBC

When at last they bade her farewell at the reception desk, Penelope did not say thank you.

From Literature

With another short, low whistle and the crook of a finger, he bade the dogs follow him.

From Literature

Both are alarmed by the sudden reappearance of a Frenchman nicknamed Beast, to whom they’d each bade goodbye years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal