happen
verb
[ ˈhap(ə)n ]
• take place; occur.
• "two hours had passed and still nothing had happened"
Similar:
occur,
take place,
come about,
come off,
come into being,
ensue,
result,
transpire,
materialize,
arise,
be,
crop up,
come up,
fall out,
pan out,
turn out,
follow,
develop,
emerge,
surface,
present itself,
supervene,
go down,
come to pass,
betide,
chance,
eventuate,
hap,
• find or come across by chance.
• "I happened on a street with a few modest restaurants"
• be experienced by (someone); befall.
• "the same thing happened to me"
happen
adverb
• perhaps; maybe.
• "happen I'll go back just for a while"
Origin:
late Middle English (superseding the verb hap ): from the noun hap1 + -en1.
