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woebetide

woebetide is the alternative form of woe betide.

Meaning of woe betide

Verb

woe betide

  1. (humorous, idiomatic, literary, transitive) Used to warn someone that trouble will occur if that person does something: bad things will happen to.
    • Woe betide you if you try that with my sister again!

Questions about woebetide

What is woebetide the alternative form of?
Woebetide is the alternative form of woe betide.

Words near woebetide in the dictionary

  1. woe to
  2. woebegone
  3. woebegonely
  4. woebegoneness
  5. woebegones
  6. woebetide
  7. woefare
  8. woeful
  9. woefuller
  10. woefullest
  11. woefully

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woebetide (page history and authors); woe betide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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