Dictionary entry details
• OCCUR (verb)
Meaning:
Come to pass
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
come about; hap; happen; occur; take place; go on; fall out; pass off; 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 "occur"):
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:
Come to one's mind; suggest itself
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
occur; come
Context examples:
It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary / A great idea then came to her
Hypernyms (to "occur" is one way to...):
become (come into existence)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
To be found to exist
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context examples:
sexism occurs in many workplaces / precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil
Hypernyms (to "occur" is one way to...):
appear; come along (come into being or existence, or appear on the scene)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "occur"):
geminate; pair (occur in pairs)
run (occur persistently)
collocate (have a strong tendency to occur side by side)
abound in; pullulate with; teem in (exist in large quantity)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
