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Beset vs Befall - What's the difference?

beset | befall |

In transitive terms the difference between beset and befall

is that beset is to decorate something with jewels etc while befall is to happen to.

As a noun befall is

case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.

beset

English

Verb

  • (label) To surround or hem in
  • (label) To attack, especially from all sides
  • (label) To decorate something with jewels etc
  • (label) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice

    • Anagrams

    * * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms English irregular verbs English past participles English verb forms using redundant wikisyntax English verb simple past forms English verb forms using redundant wikisyntax English verbs with base form identical to past participle

    befall

    English

    Verb

  • To happen.
  • To happen to.
    • Temptation befell me.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I beseech your grace that I may know / The worst that may befall me.
  • * {{quote-web, date=2013-04-15
    • , year= , first= , last= , author=Walter Russell Mead , authorlink= , title=The Wreck of the Euro , site=The American Interest citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2013-04-16 , passage=As we’ve said before, with the exception of communism itself, the euro has been the biggest economic catastrophe to befall the continent (and the world) since the 1930s. }}

    Derived terms

    * befalling * misbefall

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.
  • * 1495 , William Caxton, Vitas Patrum :
    • Or he had tolde al his befall .
  • * 1990 , India. Parliament. House of the People, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha debates :
    • This is proposed to be done by moving necessary amendment in this befall to the Finance Bill.
  • * 1994 , Socialist Party (India), Janata: Volume 49 :
    • He said "I would advise people to cultivate frugal habits. I will not commit the crime of making them helpless by saying that they have no responsibility whatever in the befall of calamities like old age, illness, accident, etc. [...]"
  • * 1996 , Thomas Pfau, Rhonda Ray Kercsmar, Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in romanticism :
    • [...], the word "care" asserting itself subliminally in somewhat the same way that "fall" does in the "befall " of "Infant Joy."

    References

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