| happen | | |
| v. (change) | 1. come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| ~ recrudesce, develop, break | happen.; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time" |
| ~ come up, arise | result or issue.; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion" |
| ~ result | come about or follow as a consequence.; "nothing will result from this meeting" |
| ~ intervene | occur between other event or between certain points of time.; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children" |
| ~ transpire | come about, happen, or occur.; "Several important events transpired last week" |
| ~ give | occur.; "what gives?" |
| ~ operate | happen.; "What is going on in the minds of the people?" |
| ~ supervene | take place as an additional or unexpected development. |
| ~ proceed, go | follow a certain course.; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?" |
| ~ come | come to pass; arrive, as in due course.; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June" |
| ~ fall | occur at a specified time or place.; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable" |
| ~ anticipate | be a forerunner of or occur earlier than.; "This composition anticipates Impressionism" |
| ~ develop | be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest.; "The plot developed slowly" |
| ~ recur, repeat | happen or occur again.; "This is a recurring story" |
| ~ come off, go over, go off | happen in a particular manner.; "how did your talk go over?" |
| ~ roll around, come around | happen regularly.; "Christmas rolled around again" |
| ~ materialise, materialize, happen | come into being; become reality.; "Her dream really materialized" |
| ~ bechance, befall, happen | happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance.; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" |
| ~ bechance, befall, betide | become of; happen to.; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?" |
| ~ coincide, concur | happen simultaneously.; "The two events coincided" |
| ~ backfire, backlash, recoil | come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect.; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble" |
| ~ chance | be the case by chance.; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street" |
| ~ break | happen or take place.; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months" |
| ~ fall, shine, strike | touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" |
| ~ turn out | prove to be in the result or end.; "It turns out that he was right" |
| ~ contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize | happen at the same time. |
| v. (change) | 2. bechance, befall, happen | happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance.; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| ~ happen | chance to be or do something, without intention or causation.; "I happen to have just what you need!" |
| v. (social) | 3. happen | chance to be or do something, without intention or causation.; "I happen to have just what you need!" |
| ~ bechance, befall, happen | happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance.; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" |
| ~ chance | be the case by chance.; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street" |
| v. (change) | 4. happen, materialise, materialize | come into being; become reality.; "Her dream really materialized" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| ~ come out, appear | be issued or published.; "Did your latest book appear yet?"; "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet" |
| v. (possession) | 5. bump, chance, encounter, find, happen | 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" |
| occur | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. come, occur | come to one's mind; suggest itself.; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her" |
| ~ become | come into existence.; "What becomes has duration" |
| v. (stative) | 2. occur | to be found to exist.; "sexism occurs in many workplaces"; "precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil" |
| ~ come along, appear | come into being or existence, or appear on the scene.; "Then the computer came along and changed our lives"; "Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago" |
| ~ geminate, pair | occur in pairs. |
| ~ run | occur persistently.; "Musical talent runs in the family" |
| ~ collocate | have a strong tendency to occur side by side.; "The words 'new' and 'world' collocate" |
| ~ abound in, pullulate with, teem in | exist in large quantity. |
| occur | | |
| transpire | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. transpirate, transpire | pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas. |
| ~ flow, flux | move or progress freely as if in a stream.; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium" |
| v. (change) | 2. transpire | exude water vapor.; "plants transpire" |
| ~ evaporate, vaporize, vaporise | lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue.; "evaporate milk" |
| v. (change) | 3. transpire | come to light; become known.; "It transpired that she had worked as spy in East Germany" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (change) | 4. transpire | come about, happen, or occur.; "Several important events transpired last week" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| v. (body) | 5. transpire | give off (water) through the skin. |
| ~ exudate, exude, ooze out, transude, ooze | release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities.; "exude sweat through the pores" |
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