Verb

(occurr)

To happen or take place.

* {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred , but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}

To present or offer (itself).

(label) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).

* 1995 , (Theodore Kaczynski), Industrial Society and Its Future ,

Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, [...]

(label) To be present or found.

Verb

(head)

(happen)

Verb

(en verb)

To occur or take place.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}

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

To encounter by chance.

* 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 30:

Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.