betide
verb (used with object)
to happen to; come to; befall.
betided
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past participleof betide.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof betide.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
betideverb (used with object)to happen to; come to; befall.
Example Sentences
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Thereupon the Judge explained saying, "Pardon, O King of the Age, I merit even more than what hath betided me."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Her thoughts were with all that had betided in the past and what might have been.
From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Douglas Duer
Betide, betided or betid, betiding, betided or betid.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
This should have served to prefigure to me that my soul, once free and sovereign of itself, was on that day to lay aside its sovereignty and become a slave, as it betided.
From La Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio
Whusky an' he were man an' may Whate'er betided.
From New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
