Definizione monolingua

befall

befall (third-person singular simple present befalls, present participle befalling, simple past befell, past participle befallen)

1. (intransitive) To happen.
2. (transitive) To happen to.

   Temptation befell me.

befall (plural befalls)

1. Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.
   • 1495, William Caxton, Vitas Patrum:

     Or he had tolde al his befall.

   • 1990, India. Parliament. House of the People, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha debates:

     This is proposed to be done by moving necessary amendment in this befall to the Finance Bill.

   • 1994, Socialist Party (India), Janata: Volume 49:

     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. [...]""

   • 1996, Thomas Pfau, Rhonda Ray Kercsmar, Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in romanticism:

     [...], the word ""care"" asserting itself subliminally in somewhat the same way that ""fall"" does in the ""befall"" of ""Infant Joy.""

Definizione dizionario befall

	avvenire
	(Per un evento) Avere un'esistenza reale.
	(For an event) Have a real existence.

	succedere
	(Per un evento) Avere un'esistenza reale.
	(For an event) Have a real existence.

	verificarsi
	(Per un evento) Avere un'esistenza reale.
	(For an event) Have a real existence.

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Altri significati:

(transitive) To happen to.

happen to

(intransitive) To happen.