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fall out vs befall

befall vs fall out

fall out and befall both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
fall out No No Yes No
befall No No Yes No
As verbs, befall is a hyponym of fall out; that is, befall is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fall out:
  • fall out: come to pass
  • befall: happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
Other hyponyms of fall out include break, develop, recrudesce, arise, come up, result, intervene, transpire, give, supervene, go, proceed, come, fall, anticipate, develop, recur, repeat, come off, go off, go over, come around, roll around, happen, materialise, materialize, bechance, happen, bechance, betide, coincide, concur, backfire, backlash, recoil, chance, break, fall, shine, strike, turn out, contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize.
fall out (verb) befall (verb)
come to pass happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
have a breach in relations become of; happen to
drop out
leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation
come as a logical consequence; follow logically
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