occurred
Verb
The word is derived from occur
Meaning
of Occur
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave.
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.