Crossword-Solution: BEFALLEN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Befallen | p. p. | of Befall |
We have 3 clues for the answer “BEFALLEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Came to pass, in the past | 1 answer |
| Came to pass, old-style | 1 answer |
| Happened to, poetically | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BEFALLEN (5)
When they had dragged the nets to the shore they found but few fish: the nets were full of sand and stones, and the men were beyond measure cast down so much at the disappointment which had befallen them, but because they had formed such very different expectations.
His face was turned up to the sky and his brows were drawn in a frown, as if he had realized that something had befallen him.
Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
Why had the sight of that evil countenance not warned me to greater caution? Why had I permitted the rapid development of new situations to efface the recollection of that menacing danger? But, alas, vain regret would not erase the calamity that had befallen.
And what of you, red man?” Carthoris related all that had befallen him, and as the two men talked the great apes squatted about them watching them intently.
Quotes with BEFALLEN (3)
Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.
All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my memories, dreams, fantasies, everything I have ever read, all of that has been chucked onto the compost heap, where over time it has rotted down to a dark, rich, organic mulch. The process of cellular breakdown makes it unrecognizable. Other people call it the imagination. I think of it as a compost heap. Every so often I take an idea, plant it in the compost, and wait. It fee…
But no, what interested him, psychologically speaking, was the sense of continuity itself, the mind's insistence that this was the same Regan he'd known when he was eight; had anything befallen her, the Regan he lost would have been the one who'd perched on the black rocks of the park back then, with all her futures inside.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2013–2021).