Occur

Definition of Occur

Oc`cur´

v. i.	1.	To meet; to clash. [imp. & p. p. Occurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Occurring .] The resistance of the bodies they occur with. - Bentley.
	2.	To go in order to meet; to make reply. I must occur to one specious objection. - Bentley.
	3.	To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to appear. In Scripture, though the word heir occur, yet there is no such thing as "heir" in our author's sense. - Locke.
	4.	To happen; to take place; as, I will write if opportunity occurs.
	5.	To come to the mind; to arise in the mind; to suggest itself; to be presented to the imagination or memory; - of an idea or thought; as, it never occurred to me to call John to ask. There doth not occur to me any use of this experiment for profit. - Bacon.

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appear, arise, be, be extant, be found, be in existence, be located, be met with, be present, be realized, be situated, be the case, be there, become manifest, breathe, come, come down, come off, come to, come to mind, come to pass, come true, crop up, dawn on, dawn upon one, develop, dwell in, eventuate, exist, fall, go off, grab one, hap, happen, happen to be, have being, have place, hit, hold, indwell, inhere, lie, live, manifest itself, materialize, obtain, occur to, offer itself, pass, pass off, present itself, prevail, remain, rise to mind, stand, strike, strike the mind, subsist, suggest itself, surface, turn up

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