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1. befall

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Usually means: Happen to someone or something.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word befall:

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  1. befall: Merriam-Webster
  2. befall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. befall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. befall: Collins English Dictionary
  5. befall: Vocabulary.com
  6. Befall, befall: Wordnik
  7. befall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. befall: Wiktionary
  9. befall: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. befall: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. befall: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Befall, befall: Dictionary.com
  13. befall: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. befall: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Befall: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. befall: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. befall: Rhymezone
  18. befall: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. befall: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. befall: FreeDictionary.org
  21. befall: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. befall: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. befall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. befall: Legal dictionary

(Note: See befallen as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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.

Similar:
bechance, betide, happen, befal, onfall, fall on, fall foul, fall into, overhend, fall down on, more...

Types:
happen, occur, transpire, more...

Phrases:
befall me, befall her, more...

Adjectives:
worse, evil, good, fair, french, untoward, hap, poor, like, woeful, unhappy

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Similar:
bechance, betide, happen, befal, onfall, fall on, fall foul, fall into, overhend, fall down on, more...

Types:
happen, occur, transpire, more...

Phrases:
befall me, befall her, more...

Adjectives:
worse, evil, good, fair, french, untoward, hap, poor, like, woeful, unhappy

Colors:
    charcoal,     midnight blue,     ash gray,     blood red,     stormy gray, more...



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