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  1. intransitive verb To come to pass.
  2. intransitive verb To come into being.
  3. intransitive verb To take place or occur by chance.
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  • To have been posting that kind of sales and should have been posting strong profits if run with any intelligence only to have this happen is a big F'U to the clients and employees. —  CE Pro Recently Filed
  • The last time something like this happen was about a decade ago when I tested my first audio grade powercord vs the stock powercord on my VTL power amp. —  www.hardwarezone.com.sg
  • Some who have worked so very hard to make all this happen are already tired. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids 'schools. —  Marine Corps Moms
  • What I want to happen is to run the script, and be prompted to enter in 2 values. —  AutoHotkey Community
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English happenen, from hap, chance; see hap.

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  1. from Middle English happenen, hapnen, an extension, with verb-formative -n (see -en, 3), of the more common Middle English happen (present indicative happe), English hap: see hap, v.
  2. English dial.; sometimes happens; abbreviation of it may happen. Cf. English dial. mappen, a contr. of the same, and cf. colloq. mayhap, maybe, abbreviation of it may hap, it may be.
  3. Middle English, from Icelandic happinn, fortunate, happy: see hap, and cf. happy.
 

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