Usually means: Happening to someone or something.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word befalling:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. befalling: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. befalling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. befalling: Vocabulary.com
  4. befalling: Wordnik
  5. befalling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. befalling: Wiktionary
  7. Befalling, befalling: Dictionary.com
  8. befalling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Befalling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Befalling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. befalling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. befalling: Free Dictionary
  13. befalling: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

(Note: See befall as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (befalling)

noun:  A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
adjective:  (archaic) Appertaining; appropriate; fitting.

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