"befal" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "befals",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "befaling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "befel",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "befalen",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "befall"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:",
          "text": "Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 84:",
          "text": "[…] they parted, with a very earnest assurance on her side of her unceasing good wishes for his happiness in every change of situation that might befal him; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Beginning of a Long Journey”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 334:",
          "text": "He promised to communicate with me, when anything befel him; and he slung his bag about him, took his hat and stick, and bade us both “Good bye!”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:",
          "text": "I only hoped that whatever was to befal me might soon be over, for the tension of nerve was growing more than I could bear.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete form of befall."
      ],
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "befal"
}

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    {
      "form": "befals",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "befaling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "befel",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "befalen",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:",
          "text": "Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 84:",
          "text": "[…] they parted, with a very earnest assurance on her side of her unceasing good wishes for his happiness in every change of situation that might befal him; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Beginning of a Long Journey”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 334:",
          "text": "He promised to communicate with me, when anything befel him; and he slung his bag about him, took his hat and stick, and bade us both “Good bye!”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:",
          "text": "I only hoped that whatever was to befal me might soon be over, for the tension of nerve was growing more than I could bear.",
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        }
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        "Obsolete form of befall."
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  "word": "befal"
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