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   Be·tide

   /bəˈtīd/

   

   verb

   • 1. happen: literary "I waited with beating heart, as yet not knowing what would betide"
   • ▪ happen to (someone): literary "she was trembling with fear lest worse might betide her"

   Word Origin Middle English: from be- (as an intensifier) + obsolete tide ‘befall’, from Old English tīdan ‘happen’, from tīd (see tide).

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   What does betide mean?

   • Other forms: betided; betides; betiding When something betides you, it happens to you. Betide is a literary way of saying “happen,” like in this quote from Jane Austin’s Persuasion, “Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence….” This is an old-fashioned word for things happening, especially uncertain or negative things.

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   What does the word 'woe betide' mean?

   • This word often appears with woe as in "Woe betide all who date my sister!" Which means, basically, something bad will happen to you if you date her. If you say, "What will the new day betide ?" it means, "What will happen tomorrow?" Betide means about the same thing as bechance and befall.

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   What does 'woe betide all who Date my Sister' mean?

   • This is an old-fashioned word for things happening, especially uncertain or negative things. This word often appears with woe as in "Woe betide all who date my sister!" Which means, basically, something bad will happen to you if you date her.

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   betide: 1 v become of; happen to Synonyms: bechance , befall Type of: come about , fall out , go on , hap , happen , occur , pass , pass off , take place come to pass

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   From Middle English bityden[and other forms]; from bi- (prefix forming verbs, usually with a completive, figurative, or intensive sense) + tyden (“to come about, happen, occur; to befall, become of, happen to (someone); to be the fate of (someone); to await (someone); to fare, get along”); tyden is derived from Old English tīdan (“to befall, betide...

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   (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɪˈtaɪd/

   (General American) IPA(key): /bəˈtaɪd/

   Rhymes: -aɪd

   Hyphenation: be‧tide

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   betide (third-person singular simple present betides, present participle betiding, simple past and past participle betid or betided) (dated, literary) 1. (transitive) Often used in a prediction (chiefly in woe betide) or a wish: to happen to (someone or something); to befall. 1.1. 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Aegloga Vndec...

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   4 days ago · To happen or happen to; befall (often in the phrase woe betide (someone)).... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.

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   Definition of betide verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   Betide definition, to happen to; come to; befall: Woe betide the villain! See more.

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   betide. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English be‧tide /bɪˈtaɪd/ verb → woe betide somebody → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus betide • But woe betide the culprit who trespasses on the wrong side of 50. • She has a sharp cutting edge and woe betide the Europhile who treads on her toes. • But woe betide the tight ...

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