Usually means: Occurs or happens to someone.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. befalls: Merriam-Webster
  2. befalls: Collins English Dictionary
  3. befalls: Vocabulary.com
  4. Befalls, befalls: Wordnik
  5. befalls: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. befalls: Wiktionary
  7. befalls: Dictionary.com
  8. befalls: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. befalls: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. befalls: Legal dictionary

(Note: See befall as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (befall)

verb:  (transitive) To fall upon; fall all over; overtake
verb:  (intransitive) To happen.
verb:  (transitive) To happen to.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To fall.
noun:  Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.
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