verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fate befalls sb formal (= someone suffers a particular fate )
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I wondered what fate would befall me.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
disaster
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Thieves, war and other disasters may befall you.
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Audiences continued to respond to the warnings of the disaster which would befall were this rule not respected.
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But today, after the disaster that has befallen a very traditional Labour strategy, things may change.
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Despite the economic disaster that had befallen his country in the decade he had held power, he was confident of victory.
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But I hardly like to tell you about the disaster that befell Angela within the next few minutes.
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The disaster befalling him was huge.
fate
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Thankfully this fate has not befallen a splendid exponent of rabbinical humour, Rabbi Lionel Blue.
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A worse fate has befallen the general interest, mass circulation magazines, once the dominant national media.
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As we drew near and I watched 747 after 747 climbing laboriously into the clouds, I wondered what fate befell me.
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Ward envied them their ignorance of the fate that had befallen the city they had helped found.
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A similar fate befell other proposals over the following years.
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This time I knew what fate was about to befall me.
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An even more tragic fate befell many who, amid the crazed stampede, were able to get out of the fort.
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Our wheat and our maize have experienced the same fate that befell our apples and pears.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A similar crisis could befall the nation's banks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite the economic disaster that had befallen his country in the decade he had held power, he was confident of victory.
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For his own good she frequently reminded him of the horrors and deprivations that would befall him there.
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He clings to power largely because his Sunni-dominated army is afraid of the revenge that would befall it if he fell.
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I shared the joke, wondering just what fate might befall me later in the morning.
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In addressing his case, Simpson says Fuhrman is a critical link to the misery that has befallen him.
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Ishmael, worried for fear some evil has befallen Queequeg, rushes to the landlady and asks for a key.
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Now another misfortune befell the invaders.
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The changes that befall us along the way are just the various experiences that we encounter on our journey.