betideverb [ I or T ]
uk/bɪˈtaɪd/us/bɪˈtaɪd/literaryto happen (to someone)
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Occurring and happening
- afoot
- assail
- asynchronous
- attendant
- be at work idiom
- become
- come
- come up
- concur
- event
- go ahead
- go down
- go together
- go with sth
- hand
- happen
- intervene
- materialize
- occur
- underway
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Examples from literature
- Good betide thee, O King!
- Happy the man that hath turned towards them, and woe betide him that hath turned aside.
- His parting injunction to them had been, that whatever might betide, 'they should keep together'.
- If she ventures to have a heart or a will of her own, woe betide her!
- They would all have had to ride home that night, and who could say what might betide them.