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Synonyms for occur
əˈkɜroc·cur
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
occur
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, happen, supervene, take placePreposition:
An event happens to a person; a person happens on or upon a fact, discovery, etc.
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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, pass off, slip by, materialize, breathe, excrete, turn over, go, spend, bechance, slide by, croak, emit, fade, hand, legislate, happen, 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 onoccur, comeverb
come to one's mind; suggest itself
"It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her"
Synonyms:
pass off, happen, derive, fall out, issue forth, amount, go on, total, make out, arrive, number, follow, come up, hail, take place, fare, get, descend, come, fall, get along, pass, do, come about, come in, hap, add upoccurverb
to be found to exist
"sexism occurs in many workplaces"; "precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil"
Synonyms:
hap, go on, pass off, take place, happen, fall out, pass, come, come about
Dictionary of English Synonymes
occurverb
Synonyms:
appear, arise, offer, come into view, present itself, be met with, meet the eyeoccurverb
Synonyms:
come to one's mind, come into one's head, flash on the mindoccurverb
Synonyms:
befall, happen, fall out, take place, come about, come to pass
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#47 | do | |
#77 | get | |
#100 | find | |
#104 | top | |
#123 | go | |
#143 | number | |
#315 | total | |
#316 | place | |
#342 | guide | |
#357 | return | |
#504 | come | |
#555 | give | |
#644 | hand | |
#656 | keep | |
#672 | run | |
#870 | amount | |
#907 | clear | |
#1056 | continue | |
#1164 | follow | |
#1176 | lead | |
#1232 | fall | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1728 | progress | |
#1763 | die | |
#1837 | advance | |
#1885 | chance | |
#1908 | appear | |
#2254 | reach | |
#2273 | produce | |
#2877 | happen | |
#2919 | spend | |
#3110 | occur | |
#3227 | exit | |
#3350 | draw | |
#4302 | occurs | |
#4532 | extend | |
#5041 | exceed | |
#5076 | communicate | |
#5474 | arrive | |
#5628 | proceed | |
#5808 | eliminate | |
#6013 | fleet | |
#7087 | arise | |
#7229 | sink | |
#7693 | encounter | |
#8972 | fare | |
#10588 | bump | |
#10918 | authorize | |
#11159 | emerge | |
#11701 | breathe | |
#12336 | fade | |
#12853 | expire | |
#13184 | derive | |
#14400 | hail | |
#18970 | transcend | |
#19455 | overhaul | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#21204 | choke | |
#22983 | emit | |
#25148 | descend | |
#25403 | hap | |
#27826 | perish | |
#30953 | surpass | |
#38869 | authorise | |
#39579 | overtake | |
#44527 | legislate | |
#48079 | materialize | |
#67651 | befall | |
#72536 | elapse | |
#73790 | croak | |
#83252 | devolve | |
#88666 | materialise | |
#92888 | decease | |
#110634 | excrete | |
#164683 | overstep | |
#166458 | conk | |
#174246 | betide | |
#290785 | supervene |
How to use occur in a sentence?
This conviction, and a sentence of nine years, for an alleged crime that so obviously did not occur, is ridiculous, i can not even say' miscarriage of justice' because clearly' justice' was not even considered. This was theater of the absurd.
It's embarrassing to admit it, but I never considered the political ramifications, i really wanted to tell a love story, but as I was writing it, and as we were making it, it did occur to me that there's a sort of dramatic irony in the sense that everyone watching the movie will always know what they went on to do.
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.
About half of DVTs and PEs occur in patients who are currently in the hospital or have recently been in the hospital.
We continue to view a coordinated production cut as highly unlikely and ultimately self-defeating, despite the sharp bounce in oil prices, we do not expect such a cut will occur unless global growth weakens sharply from current levels, which is not our economists' forecast.
Translations for occur
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- odehrát se, dít se, napadnout, nastat, se, udát se, stát seCzech
- forekommeDanish
- einfallen, passieren, in den Sinn kommen, vorkommen, auftretenGerman
- tincar, ocurrir, presentarSpanish
- meenuma, esinema, tekkimaEstonian
- sattua, mieli, tapahtua, juolahtaa, tulla mieleen, tarjoutua, esiintyäFinnish
- produire, arriver, passer, venir à l'idée, avoir lieu, présenter, retrouverFrench
- tachair, buail air, buail an ceannScottish Gaelic
- पाए जाते हैंHindi
- megtalálható, eszébe jut, előfordulHungarian
- eventarIdo
- מתרחשHebrew
- 思い浮かぶ, ある, 起こるJapanese
- ڕوودان, ڕێکهوتنKurdish
- occurro, supervenio, accido, evenio, subeo, cado, incidoLatin
- afalenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- се појавува, текнува, се јавува, се среќаваMacedonian
- opkomen, voorkomen, zich, aanbieden, gebeuren, invallen, verschijnen, voordoen, plaatsvindenDutch
- forekomme, inntreffeNorwegian
- wydarzyć się, wydarzać się, występowaćPolish
- ocorrer, encontrar, acontecerPortuguese
- treceRomanian
- приходить в головуRussian
- pasti na pametSerbo-Croatian
- hända, äga rum, ske, förekommaSwedish
- hazır olmak, hatırlamak, aklına gelmek, olmakTurkish
- виникатиUkrainian
- xảy raVietnamese
- ariver, sorvini, aspiter, si troverWalloon
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