happen
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(verb) come to pass; occur: "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
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Synonyms: come about, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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Related Words: arise, bechance, befall, betide, break, chance, coincide, come, come around, come off, come up, concur, contemporize, develop, fall, give, go, go off, go over, happen, materialize, operate, proceed, recur, repeat, roll around, supervene, synchronize, transpire, turn out, work |
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(verb) come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized" |
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Synonyms: materialize |
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Related Words: appear, come about, come out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana) |
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Synonyms: bechance, befall |
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Related Words: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) chance to be or do something, without intention or causation: "I happen to have just what you need!" |
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Related Words: chance |
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(verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" |
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Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find, hit |
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