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For the verb: "to befall"

Simple Past:	befell
Past Participle:	befallen

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
befall/bɪˈfɔːl/

▶verb (past befell; past part. befallen) literary (especially of something bad) happen to.

– origin OE befeallan ‘to fall’.

'befall' also found in these Oxford entries:

betide - chance - contingent - happen

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