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Happen   /hˈæpən/   Listen
Happen

verb
(past & past part. happened; pres. part. happening)
1.
Come to pass.  Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place.  "The meeting took place off without an incidence" , "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
2.
Happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance.  Synonyms: bechance, befall.  "These things befell"
3.
Chance to be or do something, without intention or causation.
4.
Come into being; become reality.  Synonyms: materialise, materialize.  Antonyms: dematerialise, dematerialize.
5.
Come upon, as if by accident; meet with.  Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find.  "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here" , "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"



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"Happen" Quotes from Famous Books



... of faith that His providence deprived me of the blessing of returning to a place where I had so greatly offended; and I told Him, I think with a cheerful heart and a spirit of humility, what the high priest Eli said when Samuel declared to him from God what was to happen to him: 'Dominus est: quod bonum est in oculis suis faciat.' But since the will of our Lord does not reject a contrite and humble heart, and since He both abases and exalts, He gave me to know that the greatest favour ...
— The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval • A. Leblond de Brumath
... pump are, after all, but toys, possessing an accidental value; and natural knowledge creates multitudes of more subtle contrivances, the praises of which do not happen to be sung because they are not directly convertible into instruments for creating wealth. When I contemplate natural knowledge squandering such gifts among men, the only appropriate comparison I can find for her is, to liken her to such a peasant woman as one sees in the ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley
... Columbus, spreading out that dear map of the Atlantic lying between Europe and Asia, traces for the pilots the course they have pursued—a bold, straight westerly line—and shows them that they are now near the islands of the Asiatic coast. Inspired delusion! How did it happen that the distance you reckoned to Asia was just the distance that landed you on ...
— Ten Great Events in History • James Johonnot
... like to, honest injun; but Aunt Polly—well, Jim wanted to do it, but she wouldn't let him; Sid wanted to do it, and she wouldn't let Sid. Now don't you see how I'm fixed? If you was to tackle this fence and anything was to happen to it—" ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... going to happen to the children? They've no friends, no family, nobody to care what happens to them! They're in ...
— Long Ago, Far Away • William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster


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