HAPPEN

Definition:

1. [verb] come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
   Synonyms: hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
   
   
2. [verb] happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)
   Synonyms: befall, bechance
   
   
3. [verb] chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!"
   
   
4. [verb] come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"
   Synonyms: materialize, materialise
   
   
5. [verb] 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"
   Synonyms: find, chance, bump, encounter
   
   

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• go off, come off, go over
• come around, roll around
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• concur, coincide
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• synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise
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