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Befell
Befall Be*fall", v. t. [imp. Befell; p. p. Befallen; p. pr. & vb. n. Befalling.] [AS. befeallan; pref. be- + feallan to fall.] To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. --Shak.

Meaning of Befell from wikipedia

- Phobos. Deimos served to represent the feelings of dread and terror that befell those before a battle, while Phobos personified feelings of fear and panic...
- any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm that befell them. There is historical and current prejudice against the victims of domestic...
- two tablets of the Ten Commandments and other historical calamities that befell the Jewish people on the same date. The fast of Tammuz, according to Rabbi...
- Terrible Turkish Executioner, or It Served Him Right and in Britain as What Befell the Turkish Executioner, is a 1903 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès...
- The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure is a children's fantasy novel by William Bowen that was named a...
- favour of the Queen while avoiding execution by decapitation, a fate that befell many of her suitors. The series is the successor to The Black Adder, and...
- into an awful brute. Out of personal revenge for the bloody injustice that befell him (in 1515) with the killing of kinsfolk and destruction of his property...
- in the funeral pyre of her brother-in-law and gave up her life. Trouble befell Kalyan Singh's family due to Bhatiyani's death and a shrine was devoted...
- in Cruachan, the stronghold of Connacht, such was the pillow-talk that befell betwixt them : Quoth Ailill : "True is the saying, lady, 'She is a well-off...
- World War II in Europe. In addition to being trisected, a fate which also befell Greece, Drava Banovina (roughly today's Slovenia) was the only region that...