happen

Definition

Examples

Nobody knows what will happen to the project if funding is cut.

Word Family

Synonyms

• occurcome to pass
• take placehaving a meaning similar to happen
• arisecome into existence; take on form or shape

Collocations

• Easy what happened
  a collocation phrase: what happened
• Medium happen to know the solution
  to happen to know the solution, meaning to come to pass
• Hard happen concurrently with the merger
  to happen concurrently with the merger, meaning to come to pass
• Very Hard as chance would have it happen
  describing as chance would have it happen (a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar)