Usually means: Occurred to someone as misfortune.
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  1. befallen: Merriam-Webster
  2. befallen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. befallen: Collins English Dictionary
  4. befallen: Vocabulary.com
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  6. befallen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. befallen: Wiktionary
  8. Befallen, befallen: Dictionary.com
  9. befallen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Befallen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Befallen, befallen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. befallen: FreeDictionary.org
  13. befallen: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. befallen: Legal dictionary

(Note: See befall as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To fall upon; fall all over; overtake
verb:  (intransitive) To happen.
verb:  (transitive) To happen to.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To fall.
noun:  Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.
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