befalling
Meaning of befalling
verb, gerund or present participle
- (especially of something bad) happen to (someone).
a tragedy befell his daughter
she was to blame for anything that befell
Old English befeallan ‘to fall’ (early use being chiefly figurative); related to German befallen .
Information about befalling
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of befalling
be-falling
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- befalling is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
befalling synonyms
Meaning (of a feeling) affect (someone) suddenly and powerfully:
Meaning bring one's hand or a tool or weapon into contact with (someone or something) quickly and forcefully:
Meaning hit forcibly and deliberately with one's hand or a weapon or other implement:
Meaning become of:
Meaning happen; take place:
Meaning (of a problem, opportunity, or situation) emerge; become apparent:
Meaning move out of or away from something and become visible:
Meaning occur; happen:
Meaning become actual fact; happen:
Meaning come into sight; become visible or noticeable, especially without apparent cause:
Meaning rise or come up to the surface of the water or the ground:
Meaning happen or occur afterwards or as a result:
Meaning go or come after (a person or thing proceeding ahead); move or travel behind:
Meaning occur or follow as the consequence of something:
Meaning occur as an interruption or change to an existing situation:
Meaning happen:
Meaning come about by chance:
Meaning occur as a result:
Words that rhyme with befalling
Ling, Coaling, Ealing, annealing, antiwhaling, appealing, autodialing, avaling, backpedaling, baling, bealing, berascaling, canaling, capitaling, charcoaling, coaling, concealing, congealing, countersealing, craaling, credentialing, crystaling, dealing, descaling, dialing, downscaling, embaling, empaling, ensealing, equaling, exhaling, fealing, foaling, forepaling, gealing, gimbaling, goaling, haling, healing, impaling, inhaling, initialing, instealing, interdealing, intervaling, journaling, keelhaling, kraaling, lateraling, localing
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