befall
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Is befall a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To fall upon; fall all over; overtakeExamples: "At dusk an unusual calm befalls the wetlands."transitive
2. (intransitive) To happen.Examples: "It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon [...] that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time."Synonyms: come to passintransitive
3. (transitive) To happen to.Examples: "Temptation befell me."; "But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred[…]"; "I beseech your grace that I may know / The worst that may befall me."transitive
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To fall.Examples: "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."intransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary