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(For an event) Have a real existence.

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Uso de befall em inglês
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It was the second maratime tragedy to befall his family this year.
The Irish Times
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We await the impending calamity to befall Afghanistan and perhaps other countries.
The Irish Times
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The like whereof befall me, sans the being put in the chest.
The Decameron, Volume I
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The soul determines circumstance: the soul contains the event which shall befall.
Four-Dimensional Vistas
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A hint at what was to befall in a few billion years.
The Naked God
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And in this way the greatest of all evils will befall him.
Gorgias
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But a terrible disaster was to befall the palace and the people.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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These quakes seem like just the latest insult to befall our area.
The Irish Times
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It had been in the early morning, when all such things befall.
The Case of Richard Meynell
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I could think of no other examples of what might befall us.
Helen of troy
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Unless we act immediately and in concert, disaster will befall us all.
The Universe — or Nothing
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As an audience, we end up willing some disaster to befall him.
The Guardian
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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...
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But there was little fear that a similar fate would befall Diana.
The Splendid Folly
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I don't know when I've ever had such luck befall me before.
Tobacco Road
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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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