HAPPENED

Verb

happened

simple past tense and past participle of happen

Source: Wiktionary


HAPPEN

Hap"pen, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Happened; p. pr. & vb. n. Happening.] Etym: [OE. happenen, hapnen. See Hap to happen.]

1. To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21.

2. To take place; to occur. All these things which had happened. Luke xxiv. 14. To happen on, to meet with; to fall or light upon. "I have happened on some other accounts." Graunt.

– To happen in, to make a casual call. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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