Meaning of befall | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.
2. To come to pass; happen: What is the worst that may befall?
3. to happen to (a person or thing). A disaster has befallen her. gebeur, oorkom يَحْدُث لِ، يَقَعُ لِ случвам се на acontecer přihodit se, postihnout widerfahren hænde; ramme συμβαίνω, τυχαίνω σε κπ. acontecer tabama اتفاق افتادن tapahtua arriver לִקרוֹת आ पड़ना, घटित होना spopasti, zadesiti (meg)történik menimpa koma fyrir, henda accadere ～に起こる 일어나다 ištikti notikt; atgadīties menimpa overkomenhende, skjeprzytrafić się acontecer a se întâmpla случаться postihnúť pripetiti se zadesiti hända, dra...
4. Used with the impersonal subject it and a following clause to indicate the occurrence of a usually unexpected or chance event: "It befell that, an hour before the appointed time, she was sent for by a neighbor who had been taken ill" (Henry James).
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5. To happen to: What befell the ship? See Synonyms at happen.
6. (intr) to take place; come to pass
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7. (tr) to happen to
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8. (usually foll by: to) to be due, as by right
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9. to happen to, esp. by chance.
10. to happen or occur.
11. To take place:betide, come, come about, come off, develop, hap, happen, occur, pass, transpire.

Equivalents

Examples

“Or he had tolde al his befall.”

“This is proposed to be done by moving necessary amendment in this befall to the Finance Bill.”

“He said "I would advise people to cultivate frugal habits. I will not commit the crime of making them helpless by saying that they have no responsibility whatever in the befall of calamities like old age, illness, accident, etc. …"”

“[...], the word "care" asserting itself subliminally in somewhat the same way that "fall" does in the "befall" of "Infant Joy."”

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