Synonyms:
befall, bechance, betide
Meaning: become of; happen to; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?"
Usage examples
It will be the best thing that could befall a lusty infant heretic.
As for me, I pardon you and welcome you: no harm shall befall you."
Then she bade them put her on shore, and row off again, and wait what would befall.
No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form, and who calls nothing his own.
Go back and fetch it, lest some ill-fortune should befall her, or enter the palace and trust to chance that nothing evil would happen?
Sancho took up a position in the rear of all without dismounting from Dapple, whom he dared not desert lest some mischief should befall him.
And therefore he will be least likely to lament, and will bear with the greatest equanimity any misfortune of this sort which may befall him.
I didn't see what accident could befall a whole community in a land of perpetual daylight where the inhabitants had no fixed habits of sleep.
Such are the symptoms of sudden revolutions, and of the misfortunes which are sure to befall those generations which abruptly adopt the unconditional freedom of the press.
It was characteristic of his habitual submission, that he sat down on the raw dark staircase, as many of his ancestors had probably sat down in dungeons, taking what befell him as it might befall.