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BETIDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does betide mean?
• BETIDE (verb)
The verb BETIDE has 1 sense:
1. become of; happen to
Familiarity information: BETIDE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become of; happen to
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
What has become of my children?
Hypernyms (to "betide" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Context examples
Ill betide the day that ever I took off my yeoman's jerkin to put on the white gown!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I see that more than a mere dutiful morning visit to your aunt was in question; and woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference in such a trifle as this.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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