verb
definition
To fall upon; fall all over; overtake
example
At dusk an unusual calm befalls the wetlands.
definition
To happen.
definition
To happen to.
example
Temptation befell me.
definition
To fall.
Examples of befallen in a Sentence
Disaster has also befallen many a golfer at this hole.
The Moslems regard this failure as one of the great evils that have befallen the human race, and one which retarded the progress of the world for ages,' the other calamity being the defeat in the battle of Tours by Charles Martel.
Many children waver between resentment and guilt, unhappy with the situation that has befallen the family, yet ashamed of the way they sometimes feel about their brother or sister with autism.
A similar fate has befallen Mill's economic theories.
Then Kufa underwent the fate that had befallen Basra.
The symbol for 13 in Thera is nearer than any previously known to the Semitic letter (9) though, as not infrequently happens in the transference of a symbol from one people to another, its position is inverted - a fate which in this alphabet has befallen also A (Semitic L, Thera 1), and possibly o (Semitic N, Thera M).
From a literary point of view, indeed, it cannot compare with the dignified Hebrew narrative, but considering the misfortunes which have befallen the collection of Zoroastrian traditions now represented by the Bundahish (the Parsee Genesis) we cannot reasonably be surprised.
The same fate has befallen the works of Berossus and Manetho, Eratosthenes and Apollodorus.
The Buddha has not escaped the fate which has befallen the founders of other religions; and as late as the year 1854 Professor Wilson of Oxford read a paper before the Royal Asiatic Society of London in which he maintained that the supposed life of Buddha was a myth, and "Buddha himself merely an imaginary being."
He himself was shattered in health by so many years of continuous campaigning and exposure, and by the cares and disappointments which had befallen him.
That the Kulturkampf had followed so rapidly upon the war was the greatest piece of good fortune that could have befallen the Holy See.