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World wars were the biggest disasters to befall Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. An explanation of this is power hungry people that did not value the human race. All other disasters were natural disasters and nature explains itself.
This personification is meant to indicate how quickly death befell the Jews of Sighet.
To happen or occur
Many sinister occurrences befell the weary travelers as they made their challenging way through the darkness to the sorcerer's domain.
According to Plato: " there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods, and one grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished."
According to Plato: " there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods, and one grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished".
Since befell's definition is for something to happen, the antonym would be something not happening. So antonyms include: clash, deviate, differ, disagree, diverge, mismatch
Religous affiliation has nothing to do with natural disasters. Christians, Jews, Hindus and Athiests all suffer the same.
The past tense of befall is befell.
Befell means happened or occurred or came to pass. A question might be What tragedy befell Edgar Allan Poe when he was two years old? The answer is His mother and father died. The same question could be asked What happened to Edgar Allan when he was two years old? The same answer would be given: His mother and father died.
Befell means happened or occurred or came to pass. A question might be What tragedy befell Edgar Allan Poe when he was two years old? The answer is His mother and father died. The same question could be asked What happened to Edgar Allan when he was two years old? The same answer would be given: His mother and father died.
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