Dictionary entry details
• HAPPEN (verb)
Meaning:
Come to pass
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
come about; take place; occur; happen; hap; go on; pass off; fall out; pass
Context examples:
What is happening? / The meeting took place off without an incidence / Nothing occurred that seemed important
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "happen"):
break; develop; recrudesce (happen)
come around; roll around (happen regularly)
happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)
bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)
bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)
coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)
backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)
chance (be the case by chance)
break (happen or take place)
fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)
turn out (prove to be in the result or end)
contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)
come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)
recur; repeat (happen or occur again)
arise; come up (result or issue)
intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)
transpire (come about, happen, or occur)
give (occur)
operate (happen)
supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)
go; proceed (follow a certain course)
come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)
fall (occur at a specified time or place)
anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
bechance; befall; happen
Context examples:
It happens that today is my birthday / These things befell
Hypernyms (to "happen" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Chance to be or do something, without intention or causation
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
I happen to have just what you need!
Hypernyms (to "happen" is one way to...):
chance (be the case by chance)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
It ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Come into being; become reality
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
materialize; materialise; happen
Context example:
Her dream really materialized
Hypernyms (to "happen" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "happen"):
appear; come out (be issued or published)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Come upon, as if by accident; meet with
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
find; bump; encounter; chance; happen
Context examples:
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
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
