Word Finder - happened

definition

To occur or take place.

example

Let me tell you how it happened.

synonyms

• come to pass

definition

To happen to; to befall.

definition

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

example

Do you happen to have an umbrella?

definition

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

You just happened to get caught on camera.

A lot had happened in the last few months.

What happened to her?

Hey, you'll never guess what happened tonight.

Yet it was a short period of time for so much to have happened to them.

It happened a second time.

What else has happened to make you think she is trying to break us up?

The murder happened days, maybe weeks ago.

Many years before you came here this Land was united under one Ruler, as it is now, and the Ruler's name was always 'Oz,' which means in our language 'Great and Good'; or, if the Ruler happened to be a woman, her name was always 'Ozma.'

I suspect I'd have a lot of young men to answer to if anything happened to you out here.

What happened to Howie was no ordinary dream, just as he said.

Recognizing the town would be a step in the right direction but it wouldn't tell you the scene you saw actually happened, back in 1932.

We don't know when it happened so we tried twice to hit the time and struck out and called it quits.

At last a ship happened to pass that way and Robinson was taken on board.

If you hadn't happened to find the piglet, Eureka would surely have been executed.

It happened in the United States as recently as the 1970s.

Forget this little exercise ever happened; it won't be repeated.

It would be our secret; how we started, how we were a party to something that never happened before in history, and probably never will again; what we did and why; just the five of us.

To speak of what would have happened had Napoleon sent his Guards is like talking of what would happen if autumn became spring.

Even if they do not know for what purpose they are fattened, they will at least know that all that happened to the ram did not happen accidentally, and will no longer need the conceptions of chance or genius.

That happened only when, as was the case that day, her husband returned home, or a sick child was convalescent, or when she and Countess Mary spoke of Prince Andrew (she never mentioned him to her husband, who she imagined was jealous of Prince Andrew's memory), or on the rare occasions when something happened to induce her to sing, a practice she had quite abandoned since her marriage.

It very often happened that in a moment of irritation husband and wife would have a dispute, but long afterwards Pierre to his surprise and delight would find in his wife's ideas and actions the very thought against which she had argued, but divested of everything superfluous that in the excitement of the dispute he had added when expressing his opinion.

Denisov, not being a member of the family, did not understand Pierre's caution and being, as a malcontent, much interested in what was occurring in Petersburg, kept urging Pierre to tell them about what had happened in the Semenovsk regiment, then about Arakcheev, and then about the Bible Society.

The shock of what happened gave way to fury as Felipa turned back to them.

What had happened that made him ditch everything he knew and come to Arkansas?

No matter how sorry Alex was for what happened, or how many times he apologized or tried to make up for it, he couldn't remove the hurt.

Sleep seemed unlikely, but it must have happened shortly after her head hit the pillow.

All this happened before they were married - before they met.

It simply happened that they were attracted to each other.

It all happened so fast that she didn't have time to think, only to cling to the one solid thing she could find - Cade.

It happened so suddenly that I didn't realize it was coming.

None of this would have happened if they hadn't been alone in the house.

Cindy, sleeping with Russ isn't the worst thing that has happened to you.

It's just that... well, after that, it all happened so fast.

I never told anyone, but I avoided getting involved with any woman because of what happened to Mom.

It's what happened next that's got me troubled.

I came downstairs and tried to figure out what happened and then I talked to Ben and it calmed me down.

My dreams, the few times I remember them, are always about things that happened recently; people I just interacted with.

I don't confess to understanding what happened but it's fascinating.

Howie couldn't do anything about it; it happened two weeks ago.

Yes, but it happened a long time ago.

Martha's talking about what happened years ago.

What are your thoughts on my trying to see what happened to the entries in the million dollar contest?

It just happened yesterday.

That happened after Howie left town.

There was no way I was going to brief Howie on all that had happened, how his living room is covered in blood and his house has been ransacked; not in his present state of mind.

He needs desperately to know what happened to his sister and what he did that turned his own mother against him.

I told Julie everything that happened, my being attacked at Howie's house and that the assailant was shot dead.

I added, "They were frightened after what happened to me at Howie Abbott's house."

What would have happened if she hadn't spotted you?