occur

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

occur AW [occur occurs occurred occurring] BrE [əˈkɜː(r)] NAmE [əˈkɜːr] verb (-rr-)
1. intransitive (formal)to happen
• When exactly did the incident occur?
• Something unexpected occurred.
2. intransitive + adv./prep. to exist or be found somewhere
• Sugar occurs naturally in fruit.
Derived: ↑occur to somebody
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
late 15th cent.: from Latin occurrere ‘go to meet, present itself’, from ob- ‘against’ + currere ‘to run’.

Thesaurus:
occur verb
1. I (formal)
•Something unexpected occurred.
happen • • take place • • come up • • come about • • present itself • • crop up • |formal arise •
a change occurs/happens/takes place/comes about/arises
a situation occurs/happens/comes about/presents itself/arises
an event/accident occurs/happens/takes place
2. I (formal) (not used in the progressive tenses; used with an adverb or preposition)
•Sugar occurs naturally in fruit.
exist • • be found • |formal prevail •
occur/exist/be found/prevail in/among sth
still occur/exist/be found/prevail
never occur/exist/be found

Example Bank:
•Opportunities for learning occur spontaneously every day.
•These chemical changes occur naturally.
•the problems that occur among people living together
•A new outbreak of smallpox occurred in 1928.
•Impact occurred seconds after the pilot signalled for help.
•Lemurs occur in the wild only in Madagascar.
•Major economic changes have occurred recently.
•More deaths occur in winter.
•Peasant rebellions occurred throughout the 16th century.
•The collision occurred near the hospital.
•The explosion occurred just after midday.
•The fits usually occur at night.
•These climate shifts occurred over less than a decade.
•Travellers complained about lack of information when travel delays occurred.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  come, happen, hap, go on, pass off, pass, fall out, come about, take place