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befall
[ bih-fawl ]
verb (used without object)
- to happen or occur.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- Archaic. to come, as by right.
verb (used with object)
- to happen to, especially by chance or fate.
befall
/ ɪˈɔː /
verb
- intr to take place; come to pass
- tr to happen to
- intrusually foll byto to be due, as by right
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of befall1
Example Sentences
There’s also discussion about moving around steelhead to create backup populations should calamity befall one, as well as boost genetic diversity of the rare fish.
I glanced over to find the mother staring into the abyss of the fridge, experiencing some premonition of what grim fate was about to befall her daughter.
The same fate, she suspects, could befall the "Girls Gone Bible" enterprise.
The witches are thus active instruments in the fate that befalls Macbeth, making him somewhat more of a puppet of their otherworldly mischief than a closer reading of the text might bear out.
The precedents I have in mind rose and fell on elements of “human nature” that also drive what’s befalling us now.
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