English > occur: 3 senses > verb 1, changeMeaning | Come to pass. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP; It ----s that CLAUSE |
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Example | "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
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Synonyms | happen, hap, go on, pass off, pass, fall out, come about, take place |
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Caused by | effect, effectuate, set up | produce |
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trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off | put in motion or move to act |
Narrower | anticipate | Be a forerunner of or occur earlier than |
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arise, come up | Result or issue / issue |
backfire, backlash, recoil | Come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect |
befall, bechance, betide | Become of |
break, recrudesce, develop | happen / happen |
break | happen or take place |
chance | Be the case by chance |
come | Come to pass |
come around, roll around | happen regularly |
concur, coincide | happen simultaneously |
develop | Be gradually disclosed or unfolded |
fall | occur at a specified time or place |
fall, shine, strike | touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly |
give | Occur |
go off, come off, go over | happen in a particular manner |
happen, materialize, materialise | come into being |
happen, befall, bechance | happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance |
intervene | Occur between other event or between certain points of time |
proceed, go | Follow a certain course |
recur, repeat | happen or occur again |
result | Come about or follow as a consequence |
supervene | take place as an additional or unexpected development |
synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise | happen at the same time |
transpire | come about, happen, or occur |
turn out | prove to be in the result or end |
Spanish | acaecer, acontecer, llegar a ocurrir, llegar a pasar, ocurrir, pasar, sobrevenir, suceder, tener lugar |
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Catalan | esdevenir-se, ocórrer, passar, sobrevenir, succeir, tenir lloc |
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