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Befell
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.

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- Terrible Turkish Executioner, or It Served Him Right and in Britain as What Befell the Turkish Executioner, is a 1903 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès...
- any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm that befell them. There is historical and current prejudice against the victims of domestic...
- Phobos. Deimos served to represent the feelings of dread and terror that befell those before a battle, while Phobos personified feelings of fear and panic...
- two tablets of the Ten Commandments and other historical calamities that befell the Jewish people on the same date. The fast of Tammuz, according to Rabbi...
- in service. The ship was broken up at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. A similar fate befell its sister ship, Esso Hibernia, also built on Tyneside and launched in 1970...
- his memory loss. Farhan tells Antony about his past and the tragedy that befell their friend Aaryan. Together, the trio had been known as the 'Mumbai Police'...
- into an awful brute. Out of personal revenge for the bloody injustice that befell him (in 1515) with the killing of kinsfolk and destruction of his property...
- over the three-year German occupation, a more complete destruction than befell any other country in the Holocaust. Historians attribute this to the m****ive...
- would be a fun way to have somebody else benefit from this tragedy that befell Tanya." The original cut of the episode was over two-and-a-half-hours long...
- World War II in Europe. In addition to being trisected, a fate which also befell Greece, Drava Banovina (roughly today's Slovenia) was the only region that...