betiding
betiding is the present participle and gerund of betide.
Meaning of betide
Verb
betide (third-person singular simple present betides, present participle betiding, simple past and past participle betid or betided)
- Often used in a prediction (chiefly in woe betide) or a wish: to happen to (someone or something); to befall.
- Whether good or ill betide you, trust in yourself.
- Chiefly in the third person: to happen; to take place; to bechance, to befall.
- If he were dead what would betide of me.c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC...
Words that rhyme with betiding
- riding
- confiding
- abiding
- biding
- gliding
- guiding
- hiding
- paragliding
- sliding
- striding
- backsliding
- bestriding
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- blindsiding
- briding
- broadsiding
- chiding
- coinciding
- colliding
- coresiding
- deciding
- deriding
- disciding
- dividing
- eliding
- griding
- hagriding
- joyriding
- misguiding
- niding
- nondividing
- outriding
- overriding
- overstriding
- peroxiding
- presiding
- priding
- providing
- redeciding
- redividing
- residing
- siding
- subsiding
- suiciding
Questions about betiding
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- Betiding is the present participle and gerund of betide.
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