Befell

//bɪˈfɛl// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of befall form-of, past

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happenbe foundbe met withbe realizedbechancebechance

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"Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital."

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