We found 26 dictionaries that define the word
befall:
General (25 matching dictionaries)
- befall: Merriam-Webster
- befall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- befall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- befall: Collins English Dictionary
- befall: Vocabulary.com
- Befall, befall: Wordnik
- befall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- befall: Wiktionary
- befall: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
- befall: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
- befall: Infoplease Dictionary
- Befall, befall: Dictionary.com
- befall: Online Etymology Dictionary
- befall: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
- Befall: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
- befall: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
- befall: Rhymezone
- befall: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
- befall: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
- befall: FreeDictionary.org
- befall: Mnemonic Dictionary
- befall: TheFreeDictionary.com
- befall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Business (1 matching dictionary)
- befall: Legal dictionary
(Note: See
befallen as well.)
▸ 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.
bechance,
betide,
happen,
befal,
onfall,
fall on,
fall foul,
fall into,
overhend,
fall down on,
more...
worse,
evil,
good,
fair,
french,
untoward,
hap,
poor,
like,
woeful,
unhappy
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