mishappen
verbUK /mɪsˈhap(ə)n/
Etymology From Middle English mishapnen, equivalent to mis- + happen.
1
Obsolete To encounter grief or misfortune.
2
Archaic To happen through misfortune.
- His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
3
To happen ill; fare ill.