Sekirov Dictionary

happen

/ˈhæpən/

verb 5
adverb 1
forms 7
phrases 8

verb5

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to take place
- Let me tell you how it happened.
•
To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
- Take an umbrella in case it happens to rain.
- Do you happen to have an umbrella?
•
To encounter by chance.
- Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced. — 1860
(informal) To become popular or trendy.
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(no longer used) To happen to; to befall.
- 'By my soul! I believe something bad has happened me,' he muttered, and popped up his window, and looked out, half dreaming over the church-yard on the park beyond […] — 1863

adverb1

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(dialect) maybe, perhaps.
- Yeah, well happen if he'd gone quietly, she wouldn't have needed to show him who's in charge. — 2016

forms

happen'd · happened · happening · hapneth · happeneth · happens · happenest

Phrases with happen

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