Definitions
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- adverb At any early period.
- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
betide .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And woe betides the rare PMC employee who sees something going wrong and out of conscience goes public with it.
David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 4 David Isenberg 2011
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And woe betides the rare PMC employee who sees something going wrong and out of conscience goes public with it.
David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 4 David Isenberg 2011
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And woe betides the rare PMC employee who sees something going wrong and out of conscience goes public with it.
David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 4 David Isenberg 2011
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And woe betides the rare PMC employee who sees something going wrong and out of conscience goes public with it.
David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 4 David Isenberg 2011
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Woe betides someone who says that the local commander is not doing a good job or praises the Taliban too fulsomely.
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Thyself ordain who first must seize the blazing bar and burn the Cyclops 'eye out, that we may share alike whate'er betides.
The Cyclops 2008
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Thyself ordain who first must seize the blazing bar and burn the Cyclops 'eye out, that we may share alike whate'er betides.
The Cyclops 2008
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Woe betides us, Epstein asserts, because $21 billion in annual industry sales will go off patent this year, and $24 billion over the next three years, "a sharp dent for an industry that today generates about $250 billion in revenue."
Merrill Goozner: Epstein's Take on Big Pharma and the Trials of Pfizer 2008
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And woe betides those of us who haven't thought to bring our own water.
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Whatever betides, whatever new ties you may form, whatever changes may come between us, I shall always look to you, and love you, as I do now, and have always done.
David Copperfield 2007
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