Happen

Word HAPPEN
Character 6
Hyphenation hap pen
Pronunciations /ˈhæpən/

Definitions and meanings of "Happen"

What do we mean by happen?

To come to pass. intransitive verb

To come about as a consequence; result. intransitive verb

To be the fate; become. intransitive verb

To encounter something by chance. intransitive verb

To come or go casually; make an appearance. intransitive verb

Used with the impersonal subject it and a following clause or infinitive to indicate the occurrence of a usually unexpected or chance event. intransitive verb

To have the fortune (to be or do something); be in a situation or position (to be or do something). intransitive verb

Used with an infinitive to make polite requests. intransitive verb

Possibly; perhaps.

To occur by chance; occur unexpectedly or unaccountably; in general, to occur; take place.

To chance; be by chance or unexpectedly: as, he happened to be at home.

Fortunate; happy; blessed.

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. intransitive verb

To take place; to occur. intransitive verb

To meet with; to fall or light upon. intransitive verb

To make a casual call. intransitive verb

To occur or take place. verb

To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability. verb

To encounter by chance. verb

To occur or take place.

To happen to; to befall.

(with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.

(followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Happen

The word "happen" in example sentences

We Americans show very little care about atrocities that happen *as they happen*, and even less once they are past. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sub-junctive_; which may or may not happen, hence introduced by an _if_, equal to _gif_, _give_, _grant_, _provided it so happen_. ❋ Various (N/A)

I cannot think of a more dangerous situation to be allowed to happen is to allow shooting at night! ❋ Unknown (2010)

What maybe needs to happen is to say that our next war is on our sad infrastructure. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now, what does need to happen is to make sure such purchases are not subsidized on the back end. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What needs to happen is tort reform and portability. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The very last thing I want to happen is to not meet their expectations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The only thing we will be sure to happen is to have a new president of the electoral commission, he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What needs to happen is to have consumers write and visit their lawmakers regularly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Oh, right – tell me that this country wants to revert back to the days of GWB – and the destruction of the constitution = what really needs to happen is to elminate republicans from any elective office – even congressmen/women who possibly aare really republicans in disguise. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I guess what will have to happen is to start digging into every politicians past, just to see if there is something in their past that can be controversal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Only way for that to happen is to have the movie be set in space on a space carrier with the humans replaced by puppets and the zombies played out by monkeys. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What needs to happen is to reduce the trade deficit which in turn would reduce the need of the government to debt finance economic growth and reduce the national debt. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Now all that needs to happen is to see what the more candidate, business networking, algorithmic shortlist scoring, self-service cost per click job ad world, post Linkedin/Monster/Careerbuilder/Seek looks like. ❋ Ben Barren (2006)

The first thing that needs to happen is toughening of the laws for everyone. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The key to making this happen is a great deal of revision. ❋ Sharon Bakar (2005)

So, to argue that YOUR “forefathers” didn†™ t mean for Roe VS Wade to happen is to be pathetic at best; ignorant, blind and unsympathetic at worst. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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