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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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Befell
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befall
O.E. befeallan "to deprive of; fall to, be assigned to; befall," from be- "by, about" + feallan (see fall).
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