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Meanings of befall in English

Portuguese
acontecer
Catalan
ocórrer
Spanish
acontecer

(For an event) Have a real existence.

        acontecer
        Usage of befall in English
        1
        It was the second maratime tragedy to befall his family this year.
        The Irish Times
        2
        We await the impending calamity to befall Afghanistan and perhaps other countries.
        The Irish Times
        3
        The like whereof befall me, sans the being put in the chest.
        The Decameron, Volume I
        4
        The soul determines circumstance: the soul contains the event which shall befall.
        Four-Dimensional Vistas
        5
        A hint at what was to befall in a few billion years.
        The Naked God
        6
        And in this way the greatest of all evils will befall him.
        Gorgias
        7
        But a terrible disaster was to befall the palace and the people.
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
        8
        These quakes seem like just the latest insult to befall our area.
        The Irish Times
        9
        It had been in the early morning, when all such things befall.
        The Case of Richard Meynell
        10
        I could think of no other examples of what might befall us.
        Helen of troy
        11
        Unless we act immediately and in concert, disaster will befall us all.
        The Universe — or Nothing
        12
        As an audience, we end up willing some disaster to befall him.
        The Guardian
        13
        All the misfortunes and inconveniences which befall him spring from that cause.
        Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 0...
        14
        But there was little fear that a similar fate would befall Diana.
        The Splendid Folly
        15
        I don't know when I've ever had such luck befall me before.
        Tobacco Road
        16
        They even weigh the chances of physical harm that may befall them.
        The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ...
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        Spanish
        acontecer
        Befall through the time
        Befall across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Less common