happen

1. Come to pass (synset 200340744)
   "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
   subtypes:

   • break, develop, recrudesce - happen
   • arise, come up - result or issue
   • result - come about or follow as a consequence
   • intervene - occur between other event or between certain points of time
   • transpire - come about, happen, or occur
   • give - occur
   • supervene - take place as an additional or unexpected development
   • go, proceed - follow a certain course
   • come - come to pass; arrive, as in due course
   • fall - occur at a specified time or place
   • anticipate - be a forerunner of or occur earlier than
   • develop - be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
   • recur, repeat - happen or occur again
   • come off, go off, go over - happen in a particular manner
   • come around, roll around - happen regularly
   • happen, materialise, materialize - come into being; become reality
   • bechance, befall, happen - happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
   • bechance, befall, betide - become of; happen to
   • coincide, concur - happen simultaneously
   • backfire, backlash, recoil - come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
   • chance - be the case by chance
   • break - happen or take place
   • fall, shine, strike - touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
   • turn out - prove to be in the result or end
   • contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize - happen at the same time
   same as: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place
2. Happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance (synset 200345297)
   "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell"
   is a type of: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place - come to pass
   same as: bechance, befall
   verb group: happen - chance to be or do something, without intention or causation
3. Chance to be or do something, without intention or causation (synset 202600068)
   "I happen to have just what you need!"
   is a type of: chance - be the case by chance
   verb group: bechance, befall, happen - happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
4. Come into being;
   Become reality (synset 200344828)
   "Her dream really materialized"
   is a type of: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place - come to pass
   subtypes: appear, come out - be issued or published
   same as: materialise, materialize
5. Come upon, as if by accident;
   Meet with (synset 202253273)
   "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"
   same as: bump, chance, encounter, find

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