occur

occur: verb

ADVERB

▪ commonly, frequently, often, regularly, repeatedly

▪ generally, normally, typically, usually

▪ infrequently, rarely

▪ occasionally, sometimes

▪ randomly, sporadically

▪ mainly, mostly, predominantly, primarily

▪ exclusively, only

▪ naturally

▪ These chemical changes occur naturally.

▪ spontaneously

▪ Opportunities for learning occur spontaneously every day.

▪ simultaneously, together

▪ independently

▪ quickly, rapidly

▪ slowly

VERB + OCCUR

▪ be likely to, tend to

▪ be unlikely to

PREPOSITION

▪ among

▪ the problems that occur among people living together

▪ in

▪ A significant improvement occurred in patients given the drug.

Occur is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑abuse, ↑accident, ↑adaptation, ↑ambiguity, ↑assault, ↑atrocity, ↑attack, ↑bias, ↑blast, ↑breakdown, ↑cancer, ↑case, ↑catastrophe, ↑change, ↑clash, ↑collision, ↑complication, ↑compound, ↑conflict, ↑consequence, ↑conversation, ↑crash, ↑crime, ↑crisis, ↑damage, ↑death, ↑debate, ↑decline, ↑delay, ↑depression, ↑deterioration, ↑development, ↑difference, ↑dilemma, ↑disagreement, ↑disaster, ↑discrepancy, ↑discrimination, ↑disease, ↑dispute, ↑disruption, ↑disturbance, ↑earthquake, ↑effect, ↑emergency, ↑encounter, ↑epidemic, ↑erosion, ↑error, ↑eruption, ↑event, ↑evolution, ↑expansion, ↑explosion, ↑failure, ↑fall, ↑fault, ↑fire, ↑fit, ↑fluctuation, ↑illness, ↑imbalance, ↑impact, ↑improvement, ↑incident, ↑increase, ↑infection, ↑injury, ↑innovation, ↑instability, ↑instance, ↑intercourse, ↑irregularity, ↑killing, ↑leak, ↑meeting, ↑migration, ↑mineral, ↑miracle, ↑mistake, ↑misunderstanding, ↑moment, ↑movement, ↑murder, ↑mutation, ↑opportunity, ↑outage, ↑outbreak, ↑pain, ↑phenomenon, ↑problem, ↑process, ↑reaction, ↑rebellion, ↑recovery, ↑reduction, ↑relapse, ↑reproduction, ↑revolution, ↑rift, ↑riot, ↑scene, ↑shift, ↑shortage, ↑situation, ↑skirmish, ↑species, ↑split, ↑strike, ↑subsidence, ↑swelling, ↑symptom, ↑syndrome, ↑thing, ↑tide, ↑tragedy, ↑transfer, ↑transformation, ↑transition, ↑vacancy, ↑variation, ↑violence

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Synonyms:

Appear, arise, offer, come into view, present itself, be met with, meet the eye, be found / Come to one's mind, come into one's head, flash on the mind, present itself, appear / Befall, happen, fall out, take place, come about, come to pass

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Occur — Oc*cur , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Occurred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Occurring}.] [L. occurrere, occursum; ob (see {Ob }) + currere to run. See {Course}.] 1. To meet; to clash. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
occur to — (you) to come into your mind. Did it occur to you to call my apartment to see if I was there? It never occurred to me to ask where she d been. Usage notes: often used in the form not occur to you: It hadn t occurred to her that she would be… … New idioms dictionary
occur — I (come to mind) verb be uppermost in the mind, become aware, become visible, come into view, conjure up, crop up, cross ones mind, emerge, enter the mind, enter the picture, manifest itself, pass in the mind, present itself, present itself to… … Law dictionary
occur — [v1] take place, happen action, appear, arise, befall, be found, be present, betide, chance, come about, come off*, come to pass, cook*, crop up, develop, ensue, eventualize, eventuate, exist, follow, go, jell*, manifest, materialize, obtain,… … New thesaurus
occur — ► VERB (occurred, occurring) 1) happen; take place. 2) exist or be found to be present. 3) (occur to) come into the mind of. ORIGIN Latin occurrere go to meet, present itself … English terms dictionary
occur — [ə kʉr′] vi. occurred, occurring [L occurrere, to run, come up to, meet < ob (see OB ) + currere, to run: see CURRENT] 1. to be found; exist [fish occur in most waters] 2. to present itself; come to mind [an idea occurred to him] … English World dictionary
occur — (v.) 1520s, meet, meet in argument, from M.Fr. occurrer or directly from L. occurrere run to meet, run against, befall, present itself, from ob against, toward (see OB (Cf. ob )) + currere to run (see CURRENT (Cf. current)). Sense development is… … Etymology dictionary
occur — *happen, chance, befall, betide, transpire Analogous words: rise, arise, *spring, emanate, issue, proceed: *follow, succeed, ensue, supervene … New Dictionary of Synonyms
occur — has inflected forms occurred, occurring, and the noun derivative is occurrence (with two rs, often misspelt) … Modern English usage
occur */*/*/ — UK [əˈkɜː(r)] / US [əˈkɜr] verb [intransitive] Word forms occur : present tense I/you/we/they occur he/she/it occurs present participle occurring past tense occurred past participle occurred Get it right: occur: Don t write the ed and ing forms… … English dictionary
occur — verb occurred, occurring (I) formal 1 to happen: Many accidents occur in the home. | Climatic changes have occurred at intervals throughout the millennium. 2 (always + adv/prep) to happen or exist in a particular place or situation (+ in/among… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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