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单词 betides
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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

Synonyms

  • be
  • befall
  • chance
  • come
  • come about
  • come down
  • come off
  • cook
  • do
  • go down [slang]
  • go on
  • hap
  • happen
  • occur
  • pass
  • transpire
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Example Sentences

we will be happy in our new home, whatever may betide
Recent Examples on the Web This is a standard that the women themselves are keenly aware of, and woe betide the MILF who doesn’t fit the bill. Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2023 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

Kids Definition

betide

verb
be·​tide bi-ˈtīd How to pronounce betide (audio)
betided; betiding
: to happen or happen to
woe betide you if they ever find out what you've done

betides

verb

present tense third-person singular of betide
as in happens
to take place we will be happy in our new home, whatever may betide

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • happens
  • befalls
  • is
  • occurs
  • haps
  • transpires
  • does
  • comes
  • chances
  • comes about
  • cooks
  • comes down
  • goes down
  • comes off
  • goes on
  • passes
  • comes to pass
  • rises
  • arises
  • materializes
  • proceeds
  • comes up
  • follows
  • results
  • intervenes
  • develops
  • shapes (up)
  • turns out
  • falls out
  • goes off
  • springs (up)
  • breaks
  • crops (up)
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