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- noun A
happening ;occurrence ;chance ;event . - verb Present participle of
befall . - adjective archaic
Appertaining ;appropriate ;fitting .
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Examples
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For all the symptoms which I describe as befalling to this man I refer to want of food.
On Ancient Medicine 2007
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As for a new monetary system, I was estimating that the $ would be replaced with the Amero around 2012-2015, but with the current dilemma befalling the USA I can see where it could be here as early as late 2009-2010.
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I don't know of any Paris Hilton-like scandals "befalling" her.
More photos of Olivia Palermo papabear 2008
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I don't know of any Paris Hilton-like scandals "befalling" her.
Archive 2008-10-12 papabear 2008
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The song talks about oppression, being trodden upon, and injustice; most people connect that (as Stevie Wonder did) to civil rights, Vietnam, apartheid, Watergate, global starvation, etc., but as my two teachers affirmed, we forget the injustices that are befalling our students and teachers in schools across America.
advocacy 2009
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The song talks about oppression, being trodden upon, and injustice; most people connect that (as Stevie Wonder did) to civil rights, Vietnam, apartheid, Watergate, global starvation, etc., but as my two teachers affirmed, we forget the injustices that are befalling our students and teachers in schools across America.
advocacy 2009
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But those same complaintsappear to befalling on friendlier ears this time around.
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The song talks about oppression, being trodden upon, and injustice; most people connect that (as Stevie Wonder did) to civil rights, Vietnam, apartheid, Watergate, global starvation, etc., but as my two teachers affirmed, we forget the injustices that are befalling our students and teachers in schools across America.
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Like the treatment befalling anyone who showed up at a Bush event wearing the wrong tee shirt or having the wrong bumpersticker on their car?
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Today, Just My Imagination was the chosen tune and as the Temptations latest opus revolved on its never-ending loop, it echoed round our flat and wormed into my subconscious causing me to pick at my chips and barely register what mishaps were befalling Hoss and Little Joe on the Ponderosa ranch.
Family life 2011
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