Usually means: Happen, especially something unfortunate, adverse.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word betide:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. betide: Merriam-Webster
  2. betide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. betide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. betide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. betide: Vocabulary.com
  6. Betide, betide: Wordnik
  7. betide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. betide: Wiktionary
  9. betide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. betide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. betide: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Betide, betide: Dictionary.com
  13. betide: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Betide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. betide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. betide: Rhymezone
  17. Betide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. betide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. betide: FreeDictionary.org
  20. betide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. betide: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. betide: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. betide: Idioms
  2. betide: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (betide)

verb:  (transitive) Often used in a prediction (chiefly in woe betide) or a wish: to happen to (someone or something); to befall.
verb:  (intransitive) Chiefly in the third person: to happen; to take place; to bechance, to befall.

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