English > happen: 5 senses > verb 1, change| Meaning | Come to pass. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP; It ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Example | "What is happening?" |
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| Synonyms | hap, go on, pass off, occur, 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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| Nouns | happening | an event that happens |
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