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

Synonyms

• hap an accidental happening; come to pass
• go on continue a certain state, condition, or activity; come to pass; move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; continue talking; start running, functioning, or operating
• pass off be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity; disregard; cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity; disappear gradually; come to pass; expel (gases or odors)
• occur come to pass; come to one’s mind; to be found to exist
• pass of advancing the ball by throwing it; (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; (military) a written leave of absence; (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; any authorization to pass or go somewhere; a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions; a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs ; a difficult juncture; one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer); an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent; a permit to enter or leave a military installation; a complimentary ticket; a usually brief attempt; (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; success in satisfying a test or requirement; go across or through; move past; make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; pass by; place into the hands or custody of; stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; travel past; come to pass; go unchallenged; use up a period of time in a specific way; pass over, across, or through; transmit information; disappear gradually; go successfully through a test or a selection process; be superior or better than some standard; accept or judge as acceptable; allow to go without comment or censure; transfer to another; pass into a specified state or condition; throw (a ball) to another player; be inherited by; cause to pass; grant authorization or clearance for; pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; eliminate from the body
• fall out have a breach in relations; come as a logical consequence; come off; leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation; come to pass
• come about come to pass
• take place come to pass

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

Synonyms

• befall become of; happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
• bechance become of; happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance

• “I happen to have just what you need!“

• “become reality“
• “Her dream really materialized“

Synonyms

• materialize come into being
• materialise come into being

• “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

• find a productive insight ; the act of discovering something ; come upon, as if by accident; discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; come upon after searching; establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; perceive or be contemporaneous with; get something or somebody for a specific purpose; make a discovery, make a new finding; make a discovery; obtain through effort or management; decide on and make a declaration about; receive a specified treatment (abstract); perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; get or find back; succeed in reaching; accept and make use of one’s personality, abilities, and situation
• chance occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; be the case by chance; take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; come upon, as if by accident; a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; a risk involving danger; a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; the possibility of future success
• bump a lump on the body caused by a blow ; something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; an impact (as from a collision); knock against with force or violence; come upon, as if by accident; dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; assign to a lower position; remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
• encounter a minor short-term fight ; a casual or unexpected convergence; a casual meeting with a person or thing ; a hostile disagreement face-to-face ; come together; come upon, as if by accident; be beset by; experience as a reaction; contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle