Definition of "befalls" [befalls]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befall. (verb)

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• "In that way Lydgate put the question -- not quite in the way required by the awaiting answer; but such missing of the right word befalls many seekers."
• "It was rolled, watered and attended to with an assiduity such as befalls few spots of ground in the world."
• "His extraordinary freshness of spirit easily carried Arnold, Herbert Spencer, myself, and afterwards many others, high over an occasional crudity or haste in judgment such as befalls the best of us in ardent hours."