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Meanings of betide in English

Portuguese
acontecer
Catalan
ocórrer

(For an event) Have a real existence.

        acontecer
        Usage of betide in English
        1
        Woe betide any book or author that falls outside the official guidelines.
        America’s Secret Establishment
        2
        Woe betide the miner from the mountains with gold who entered it.
        By the Golden Gate; Or, San Francisco, the Queen City of the Pac...
        3
        If he has not, woe betide him; he is commonplace and conventional.
        Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish.
        4
        Happy the man that cleaveth unto it, and woe betide the heedless.
        A Compilation on Bahá'í Education
        5
        In a month's time that may betide, but not yet; not yet.
        The Well at the World's End: A Tale
        6
        Happy are they who have attained thereto and woe betide the heedless.
        Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas
        7
        Woe betide any sensitive souls who find themselves in the firing line.
        The Irish Times
        8
        Woe betide the mob into whose ranks that thunderbolt may be hurled.
        Napoleon Bonaparte
        9
        The alarm sounds, the radio cranks in and woe betide us all.
        The Irish Times
        10
        And it's woe betide the one who takes him up on it.
        The Green Eyes of Bâst
        11
        Yet it may be thou shalt see us before if battle betide.
        The Roots of the Mountains / Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Liv...
        12
        But woe betide him if I ever find him beyond those limits.
        The Hated Son
        13
        Woe betide you if you turned up half prepared, casually interested, semi-engaged.
        A journey: my political life
        14
        So we must take good heed lest a like fate betide us.
        Barlaam and Ioasaph
        15
        He hath so many Christian knights that no ill could betide thee.
        The Fall of the Nibelungs
        16
        Woe betide, too, the person who dreams that he is cutting grass.
        The Folk-lore of Plants
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        Portuguese
        acontecer
        Betide through the time
        Betide across language varieties
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