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Synonyms for happen
ˈhæp ənhap·pen

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. happen

    A thing is said to happen when no design is manifest, or none especially thought of; it is said to chance when it appears to be the result of accident (compare synonyms for ACCIDENT). An incident happens or occurs; something external or actual happens to one; a thought or fancy occurs to him. Befall and betide are transitive; happen is intransitive; something befalls or betides a person or happens to him. Betide is especially used for anticipated evil, thought of as waiting and coming at its appointed time; as, wo betide him! One event supervenes upon another event, one disease upon another, etc. ["Transpire," in the sense of happen, is not authorized by good usage: a thing that has happened is properly said to transpire when it becomes known.]

    Synonyms:
    bechance, befall, betide, chance, come to pass, fall, fall out, occur, supervene, take place

    Preposition:
    An event happens to a person; a person happens on or upon a fact, discovery, etc.

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 2 votes

  1. happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take placeverb

    come to pass

    "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

    Synonyms:
    materialise, run, perish, elapse, go past, make pass, progress, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, continue, occur, pass off, slip by, materialize, breathe, excrete, turn over, go, spend, bechance, slide by, croak, emit, fade, hand, legislate, egest, exit, authorise, exceed, fleet, pass away, slip away, drop dead, overstep, transcend, make it, return, pop off, come out, authorize, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, give, fall out, hap, march on, glide by, go on, chance, sink, eliminate, move on, lapse, come up, give-up the ghost, blow over, take place, lead, expire, overhaul, find, advance, go through, reach, communicate, come about, keep, choke, pass by, snuff it, overtake, bump, follow, extend, come on, carry on, die, fall, pass, proceed, encounter, clear, decease, conk, travel by, buy the farm, pass along, come, befall, go across, go along, surpass, guide, pass on

  2. happen, befall, bechanceverb

    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:
    encounter, betide, materialise, fall out, bump, go on, occur, pass off, materialize, bechance, hap, chance, take place, befall, find, pass, come about

  3. happenverb

    chance to be or do something, without intention or causation

    "I happen to have just what you need!"

    Synonyms:
    materialise, hap, go on, chance, pass off, materialize, take place, encounter, befall, occur, bump, fall out, find, pass, bechance, come about

  4. happen, materialize, materialiseverb

    come into being; become reality

    "Her dream really materialized"

    Synonyms:
    encounter, materialise, fall out, bump, go on, occur, pass off, materialize, bechance, hap, chance, take place, befall, find, pass, come about

  5. find, happen, chance, bump, encounterverb

    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:
    line up, detect, recover, kick downstairs, find oneself, befall, take chances, get, get hold, run across, gamble, demote, fall out, find, pass off, retrieve, hazard, knock, rule, notice, meet, chance, determine, see, find out, come about, come up, play, take a chance, encounter, materialize, go on, receive, feel, occur, risk, pass, incur, take place, come across, bechance, observe, run into, adventure, witness, dislodge, run a risk, ascertain, relegate, bump, take on, hap, break, regain, obtain, materialise, discover

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. happenverb

    Synonyms:
    chance, occur, befall, betide, come, take place, turn up, fall out, come to pass

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. happenverb

    Synonyms:
    occur, befall, betide, supervene, intervene

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "happen":

    occur, arrive, arise, be

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How to use happen in a sentence?

  1. Oskar Schindler:

    Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

  2. Andreas Simic:

    In moments of despair, take inventory, what is the worst that can happen in this situation? Then trust that the worst does not happen, for it seldom does. You will outlive many worst-case scenarios in your lifetime.” Andreas Simic

  3. Leonardo Coronado:

    I'm so fed up that what happened in Venezuela could happen here, we don't want our country destroyed like our neighbor's has been.

  4. Zsakhiem James:

    We try to meet people in the absence of crisis, that's one of the things that helps us build that social currency. We make those deposits in the community where when things happen we can make a withdrawal on that trust.

  5. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma:

    By no means will we bail the contractors out and pass along the costs to the taxpayers, that's not going to happen.


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