occurverb
uk/əˈkɜːr/us/əˈkɝː/-rr-occur verb (HAPPEN)
B2 [ I ] (especially of accidents and other unexpected events) to happen:
An accident involving over ten vehicles has occurred in the east-bound lane.
If any of these symptoms occur while you are taking the medication, consult your doctor immediately.
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- Many suicides occur in prisons.
- We are of course investigating how an error like this could have occurred.
- Evolution occurs as a result of adaptation to new environments.
- Evidence suggests that errors may indeed be occurring.
- The partition of India occurred in 1948.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Occurring and happening
- afoot
- assail
- asynchronous
- attendant
- be at work idiom
- become
- come
- come up
- concur
- event
- go ahead
- go down
- go hand in hand with sth idiom
- go together
- go with sth
- hand
- happen
- intervene
- materialize
- underway
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occur verb (EXIST)
[ I + adv/prep ] to exist or be present in, among, etc.:
Violence of some type seems to occur in every society.
Minerals occur naturally in the earth's crust.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Existing and being
- account for sth
- alive
- am
- are
- be
- come
- existent
- extant
- go
- go back
- have legs idiom
- hood
- languish
- leg
- lie
- lie in sth
- live
- lurk
- run
- stalk
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Phrasal verb(s)
occur to sb