1 to meet by chance (usually with misfortune)

2 classifier for events: time, turn, incident

1 to suffer (defeat, death etc)

1 to suffer

2 to meet with (sth unfortunate)

1 to meet with

2 to encounter

3 (bitter) experience

1 to avoid suffering

2 to avoid meeting (a fatal accident)

3 spared

1 when it rains, it pours (idiom)

1 beset by a series of mishaps (idiom)