befall

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

befalls

V_ing/Gerund

befalling

V_ed/pp

befellbefallen

1.
(transitive)To fall upon; fall all over; overtake.
At dusk an unusual calm befalls the wetlands.
2.
(intransitive)To happen.
3.
(transitive)To happen to.
Temptation befell me.
4.
(intransitive, obsolete)To fall.
With a thought I tooke for Maudline & a cruse of cockle pottage. with a thing thus tall, skie blesse you all: I befell into this dotage.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

befalls

1.
Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.
He said "I would advise people to cultivate frugal habits. I will not commit the crime of making them helpless by saying that they have no responsibility whatever in the befall of calamities like old age, illness, accident, etc. …"

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Đồng nghĩa

come to passoccur transpireto fall uponto happen to

Cùng gốc / liên quan

befallingmisbefall

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English bifallen, from Old English befeallan, from *bifallan, from Proto-Germanic *bifallaną; equivalent to be- + fall.