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

(en verb)

to be about to happen or occur, especially of something which takes some time such as a process or procedure rather than just a short event. "To impend" often has the connotation of threat.

(obsolete) To pay.

(Fabyan)