occur

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, happen, pass, pass off, take place
2. Come to one's mind;
   Suggest itself (synset 200725311)
   "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her"
   is a type of: become - come into existence
   same as: come
3. To be found to exist (synset 202618403)
   "sexism occurs in many workplaces"; "precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil"
   is a type of: appear, come along - come into being or existence, or appear on the scene
   subtypes:

   • geminate, pair - occur in pairs
   • run - occur persistently
   • collocate - have a strong tendency to occur side by side
   • abound in, pullulate with, teem in - exist in large quantity

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