befallen

Verb

The word is derived from befall

Meaning

of Befall

Examples

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. John Lancaster Spalding

I could not have acted otherwise, and I therefore accept all that has befallen me with love. Aristides de Sousa Mendes

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have served the Government of China for many years, first the Emperor, and after that the Republican Government at Nanking. I have always tried to do my best; but I must have committed errors--- though I do not know what they were---or this misfortune would not have befallen me. I have lost face. Ma Shaowu

A lack of moral clarity is also the tragedy that has befallen efforts to advance peace and security in the world. Promoting peace and security is fundamentally connected to promoting freedom and democracy. Natan Sharansky

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people. Jennifer Egan

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