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Definition of Befalls

Befall
Befall Be*fall", v. t. [imp. Befell; p. p. Befallen; p. pr. & vb. n. Befalling.] [AS. befeallan; pref. be- + feallan to fall.] To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. --Shak.
Befall
Befall Be*fall", v. i. To come to pass; to happen. I have revealed . . . the discord which befell. --Milton.

Meaning of Befalls from wikipedia

- It is reported that the Islamic Prophet Muhammad said when a disaster befalls a believer and they recite this phrase, God would grant them something...
- Margaret Woo, an American expatriate living in Hong Kong when tragedy befalls her family. Expats follows "the vibrant lives of a close-knit expatriate...
- also suggests that bad but justified outcomes should, or eventually will, befall tyrants. It is the state motto of the U.S. state of Virginia. Before 509...
- because the details of its operation closely resemble the disaster that befalls the sorcerer's apprentice: the problem resulted in an ever-growing replication...
- (Michael Rennie), instructs Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) that if any harm befalls him, she must say the phrase to the robot Gort (Lockard Martin). The Robot...
- is believed that if natives are not careful to follow them, a curse will befall them. An action Filipinos do to counter a negative remark. A common phrase...
- 1185 by Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily was one of the worst disasters to befall the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century. David Komnenos, the governor,...
- commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object. In particular,...
- attacked Odawara castle. This was the first of several sieges which would befall Odawara castle, the home castle of the Hōjō clan. In 1559, Kenshin was pushed...
- novel Hatter's Castle by A. J. Cronin, which dramatizes the ruin that befalls a Scottish hatter set on recapturing his imagined lost nobility. The film...