(For an event) Have a real existence.
1 It was the second maratime tragedy to befall his family this year.
2 We await the impending calamity to befall Afghanistan and perhaps other countries.
3 The like whereof befall me, sans the being put in the chest.
4 The soul determines circumstance: the soul contains the event which shall befall .
5 A hint at what was to befall in a few billion years.
6 And in this way the greatest of all evils will befall him.
7 But a terrible disaster was to befall the palace and the people.
8 These quakes seem like just the latest insult to befall our area.
9 It had been in the early morning, when all such things befall .
10 I could think of no other examples of what might befall us.
11 Unless we act immediately and in concert, disaster will befall us all.
12 As an audience, we end up willing some disaster to befall him.
13 All the misfortunes and inconveniences which befall him spring from that cause.
14 But there was little fear that a similar fate would befall Diana.
15 I don't know when I've ever had such luck befall me before.
16 They even weigh the chances of physical harm that may befall them.
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