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happen, v.
(happened, happening, happens)
freq. cnt. 195
more info come to pass
<verb.change>   freq. cnt.: 319 freq. cnt.: 149 freq. cnt.: 81 freq. cnt.: 54 freq. cnt.: 24 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 4

come about fall out go on hap happen occur pass pass off take place

sample sentences

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

verb frames

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

verb frames

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

verb frames

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

verb frames

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

verb frames

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

verb frames

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
happening
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
hap
semantic pointers
hyponym
break, recrudesce, develop come up, arise result intervene transpire give supervene go, proceed come fall anticipate develop repeat, recur go over, come off, go off come around, roll around happen, materialize, materialise happen, befall, bechance befall, bechance, betide coincide, concur backfire, backlash, recoil chance break fall, strike, shine turn out synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise
more info happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
<verb.change>   freq. cnt.: 20 freq. cnt.: 20

bechance befall happen

sample sentences

"It happens that today is my birthday"
"These things befell" (Santayana)

verb frames

Something ----s

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Something ----s

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Something ----s
semantic pointers
hypernym
happen, occur, take place, go on, pass, come about, hap, pass off, fall out
verb group
happen
more info chance to be or do something, without intention or causation
<verb.social>   freq. cnt.: 17 freq. cnt.: 17

happen

sample sentences

"I happen to have just what you need!"

verb frames

Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
It ----s that CLAUSE
semantic pointers
verb group
happen, befall, bechance
hypernym
chance
more info come into being; become reality
<verb.change>   freq. cnt.: 12 freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 3

happen materialise materialize

sample sentences

"Her dream really materialized"

verb frames

Something ----s

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Something ----s

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Something ----s
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derivationally related form
materialization materialization materialization
antonym
dematerialize
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derivationally related form
materialisation materialisation materialisation
antonym
dematerialise
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hypernym
happen, occur, take place, go on, pass, come about, hap, pass off, fall out
hyponym
appear, come out
more info come upon, as if by accident; meet with
<verb.possession>   freq. cnt.: 168 freq. cnt.: 159 freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 1

bump chance encounter find happen

sample sentences

"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"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
They %s the money in the closet

verb frames

Somebody ----s something

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Somebody ----s something

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Somebody ----s something

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Somebody ----s something
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
find finder
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
encounter