bet
verb (used with object)
to wager with (something or someone).
have betted
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present perfectof bet.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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And while no one would have betted against the film being nominated, there is next to no buzz about it winning.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2018
She noticed that he kept his finger on a paragraph, and she would have betted her last shilling that he had no idea what that paragraph was about.
From Across the Stream by Edward Frederic Benson
I could have betted on Charlie, the Debonair Pride of Ashley.
From The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
You'd have betted a hundred pound to five, now, that you wouldn't have seen me here, wouldn't you?
From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Had his lordship been known not to possess the smallest chance, nine of those fair girls out of ten would, nevertheless, have betted upon him.
From Elster's Folly by Mrs. Henry Wood
