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befall
[ bih-fawl ]
verb (used without object)
- to happen or occur.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- Archaic. to come, as by right.
verb (used with object)
- to happen to, especially by chance or fate.
befall
/ ɪˈɔː /
verb
- intr to take place; come to pass
- tr to happen to
- intrusually foll byto to be due, as by right
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of befall1
Example Sentences
Remember Y2K, the impending doom that would befall us all when ill-equipped computer systems switched from “99” to “00” at the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1999?
There’s also discussion about moving around steelhead to create backup populations should calamity befall one, as well as boost genetic diversity of the rare fish.
I glanced over to find the mother staring into the abyss of the fridge, experiencing some premonition of what grim fate was about to befall her daughter.
The same fate, she suspects, could befall the "Girls Gone Bible" enterprise.
The witches are thus active instruments in the fate that befalls Macbeth, making him somewhat more of a puppet of their otherworldly mischief than a closer reading of the text might bear out.
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