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betide

verb

be·​tide bi-ˈtīd How to pronounce betide (audio)
bē-
betided; betiding; betides

intransitive verb

: to happen especially as if by fate

transitive verb

: to happen to : befall
used chiefly in the phrase woe betide
woe betide our enemies

Example Sentences

we will be happy in our new home, whatever may betide
Recent Examples on the Web If loans to today’s students are forgiven, tomorrow’s students will have every reason to expect the same break—and woe betide the politician who says no to them. WSJ, 7 July 2022 Pro-drainage legislation helped the process along, and woe betide the landowner who resisted his neighbor’s drain work. Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 Like California itself, so long isolated from the East and Midwest, California fast food was the first fast food, sui generis, and woe betide most interloper chains trying to cross the Rockies and the desert to plant themselves here. Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022 Woe betide the author who, whether by design or coincidence, must compete with another when their two books cover the same subject on roughly the same publication date. Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022 Woe betide the executive who jumps the queue, as in the case of Mark Machin, a Canadian pension-fund boss who travelled to the United Arab Emirates to get the jab. The Economist, 6 Mar. 2021 Compliance with the agency’s 15-point safety assessment is supposedly voluntary, but woe betide any company that fails to file the proper paperwork. Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2017 Like slow food, progressive politics, and nontoxic cleaning supplies, the lost art of correspondence is an unalterable part of this aesthetic, and woe betide the airy Web site that fails to stock a Kaweco fountain pen. Sadie Stein, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2017 See More

Word History

First Known Use

12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of betide was in the 12th century

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