Definition of "betides" []

• At any early period. (adverb)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of betide. (verb)

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• "And woe betides the rare PMC employee who sees something going wrong and out of conscience goes public with it."
• "Woe betides someone who says that the local commander is not doing a good job or praises the Taliban too fulsomely."
• "Woe betides us, Epstein asserts, because $21 billion in annual industry sales will go off patent this year, and $24 billion over the next three years, "a sharp dent for an industry that today generates about $250 billion in revenue.""