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bechance

/bɪˈt͡ʃæns/

bechance verb: to happen; chance.

Verb

bechance (third-person singular simple present bechances, present participle bechancing, simple past and past participle bechanced)

  1. (intransitive) To happen; chance.
    Synonyms:
    come to pass
  2. (archaic, transitive) To happen (to); befall to.
    • Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances, / Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans; / Let there bechance him pitiful mischances, / To make him moan; but pity not his moans: / Stone him with harden'd hearts, harder than stones1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC

Adverb

bechance (not comparable)

  1. Accidentally; by chance.
    • [Y]et we haue withſtood them till at the last battayle of Branxſton, where we bechaunce loſt our ſouereigne Lorde, and many noble men, but that was by treaſon of his Lord Chamberleyn, and yet I thinke we wanne the field: […]1569, Richard Grafton, “Henry the Eyght”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye...

bechance meaning in Urdu

bechance in Urdu

سوئے اتفاق

Synonyms of bechance

Forms of bechance

third-person singular presentbechances
present participlebechancing
past participlebechanced
pastbechanced

Origin of bechance

From be- + chance.

From be- (“by”) + chance.

Words that rhyme with bechance

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Questions about bechance

What does bechance mean?
Bechance means to happen; chance.
What is bechance in Urdu?
Bechance in Urdu is سوئے اتفاق. See Bechance meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is bechance?
Bechance can be a verb or an adverb.
How do you pronounce bechance?
Bechance is pronounced /bɪˈt͡ʃæns/.
What is the past tense of bechance?
The past tense of bechance is bechanced.

Words near bechance in the dictionary

  1. bechalking
  2. bechalks
  3. bechamel
  4. bechamel sauce
  5. bechamels
  6. bechance
  7. bechanced
  8. bechances
  9. bechancing
  10. Bechard
  11. Bechards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bechance (page history and authors); bechance (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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