What's the difference between befall and incident?

Befall


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To happen to.
  • (v. i.) To come to pass; to happen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even one destroyed life – and a 20-year sentence for a 39-year old filmmaker surely means the cruellest of all individual punishments – will lead to an even greater punishment and retaliation that may befall on the whole country.
  • (2) How could I have imagined the fate that would befall this precious boy?
  • (3) He wrote in his last book, The Unfinished Life: An Odyssey of Love and Cancer , of deliberately trying to compress what should have been long leisurely years of fatherhood into a few months: one daughter needing to understand where he got his beliefs and ideas, while the other "asked me to write down every likely eventuality that might befall her, and supply a satisfactory answer", as if to keep him always by her side.
  • (4) Perhaps less obvious, this knowledge is essential to recognize and effectively support claims for workers' compensation, claims that may be the only means of redress for the tragic socioeconomic difficulties befalling those who are occupationally impaired.
  • (5) And only by moving to this level do we avoid the vicious circularity that could befall the use of recursive systems.
  • (6) This may befall the radiologist who is asked to provide thrombolytic treatment in a heparinized patient.
  • (7) A similar fate befalls B&Q's Christmas ad, which opts for a fey, irritating cover version of Our House by another breathy chanteuse.
  • (8) His was the third suspicious death in the past five years to befall a businessman from the former USSR in the affluent crescent of suburbia just beyond the M25 in Surrey and Berkshire.
  • (9) Still a 14-year-old child, he was then forced to become a military conscript – a fate that normally befalls Eritreans in their last year of school, and continues for the rest of their life.
  • (10) It now befalls president-elect Buhari to govern in a democratic spirit, strengthening public institutions and ensuring that forthcoming elections at local or parliamentary level do not revert to the old ways.
  • (11) Renal cell carcinoma, which generally arises at a later age, may befall the patient who is successfully treated for the tumors that occurred earlier.
  • (12) The aspiration or ingestion of a foreign body into the upper aerodigestive tract is a common accident that befalls children and adults alike.
  • (13) You have to learn to put one foot in front of the other … You also have to look at what accidents might befall you … You have to have stamina because it could be a long route.” Barnier is from the Savoy Alps, the most mountainous region of France.
  • (14) "); the idea that we should be held to account, as feminists, for every possible ill that could befall the modern woman ("There's a whole generation of people who've confused 'feminism' with 'anything to do with women'") – all of that is just hassle in disguise.
  • (15) • This latest crisis to befall Rakhine state, which has seen 200 killed and 115,000 displaced – most of them Rohingya – tests Burma's recent transition to democracy and its commitment to establishing full human rights for those within its borders.
  • (16) Nigeria in my experience has never been so divided, so polarised by an unthinking government hell-bent on ruling and stealing for ever whatever befalls the country.
  • (17) A third - all the way from New Zealand - pronounced: "Another catastrophe befalls the country."
  • (18) Because of the complexity of the interactions that befall monocytes during an inflammatory response, it seems likely that expression of adhesion receptors on monocytes would be precisely regulated.
  • (19) The belongings were supposed to be removed as quickly as possible, so that newcomers to the camp would not suspect the fate that was about to befall them.
  • (20) Ian Ayre, the Liverpool managing director, cancelled a scheduled four-day trip to the Far East and Australia, where he was going to promote the club's pre-season tour, to deal with the latest controversy to befall the 26-year-old.

Incident


Definition:

  • (a.) Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.
  • (a.) Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
  • (a.) Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
  • (a.) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
  • (n.) That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.
  • (n.) That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.
  • (n.) Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By 1978, the reduction in incidence of measles will exceed 90%.
  • (2) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
  • (3) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
  • (4) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
  • (5) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
  • (6) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
  • (7) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
  • (8) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
  • (9) In a random sample of 1,000 neonates from a Delhi Hospital the incidence of jaundice was 53% and of hyperbilirubinaemia (HB) 6%.
  • (10) Peak incidence is found among 40 to 49-year-old and 60 to 64-year-old women.
  • (11) The high incidence of infant astigmatism has implications for critical periods in human visual development and for infant acuity.
  • (12) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
  • (13) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
  • (14) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
  • (15) We have not had another incidence of fetal scalp infection associated with intrapartum monitoring.
  • (16) The most important conclusion of both conferences was that oestrogen substitution can significantly reduce the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
  • (17) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
  • (18) In addition, recent increase of the annual incidence of the above both groups was clarified.
  • (19) We found that, although controlled release delivery of ddC inhibited de novo FeLV-FAIDS replication and delayed onset of viremia when therapy was discontinued (after 3 weeks), an equivalent incidence and level of viremia were established rapidly in both ddC-treated and control cats.
  • (20) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).