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befallen
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bih-
fawl
]
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be·fall
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bɪˈfɔl
/
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[
bih-
fawl
]
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verb,
-fell,
-fall·en,
-fall·ing.
verb (used without object)
1.
to happen or occur.
2.
Archaic
.
to come, as by right.
verb (used with object)
3.
to happen to, especially by chance or fate.
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Origin:
before 900;
Middle English
befallen,
Old English
befeallan.
See
be-
,
fall
(v.)
Synonyms
1.
bechance, ensue, betide, materialize, chance.
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befall
O.E. befeallan "to deprive of; fall to, be assigned to; befall," from be- "by, about" + feallan (see
fall
).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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"I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was "breaking the Lord's fourth commandment," and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had
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