- happen to encounter
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happen to encounter
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encounter — [n1] chance meeting appointment, brush, concurrence, confrontation, interview, rendezvous; concept 384 Ant. avoidance, evasion, retreat encounter [n2] fight, argument action, battle, bout, brush, clash, collision, combat, conflict, contention,… … New thesaurus
happen — intransitive verb (happened; happening) Etymology: Middle English, from hap Date: 14th century 1. to occur by chance often used with it < it so happens I m going your way > 2. to come into being or occur as an event, process, or result < mistakes … New Collegiate Dictionary
encounter — 1. verb 1) I encountered a teacher I used to know Syn: meet, meet by chance, run into, come across/upon, stumble across/on/upon, chance on/upon, happen on/upon; informal bump into 2) we encountered a slight problem Syn: experience, hit … Thesaurus of popular words
encounter — 1. verb 1) we encountered a slight problem Syn: experience, run into, meet, come up against, face, be faced with, confront, suffer 2) I encountered a girl I used to know Syn: meet, run into … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
happen — Synonyms and related words: be found, be met with, be realized, bechance, become of, befall, betide, break, bump, chance, come, come about, come along, come down, come off, come to pass, come true, come upon, cook, develop, do, encounter,… … Moby Thesaurus
encounter — v 1. come upon, meet, accost, confront, face, come into contact, cross one s path; run into, Inf. bump into, fall across, run across; happen upon, chance upon, stumble upon, light upon, hit upon; come face to face with, front, stand in front of,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
happen — v. & adv. v.intr. 1 occur (by chance or otherwise). 2 (foll. by to + infin.) have the (good or bad) fortune to (I happened to meet her). 3 (foll. by to) be the (esp. unwelcome) fate or experience of (what happened to you?; I hope nothing happens… … Useful english dictionary
happen — verb /ˈhapən,ˈhæpən/ a) To occur. Let me tell you how it happened. b) To encounter by chance. Take an umbrella in case it happens to rain. See Also: happening, happenstance … Wiktionary
encounter — Synonyms and related words: Olympic games, Olympics, accost, action, advance, affront, alight upon, altercation, approach, appropinquate, approximate, appulse, argument, assail, bang, bang into, battle, be exposed to, be subjected to, bear down… … Moby Thesaurus
happen upon — Synonyms and related words: alight upon, blunder upon, bump into, chance upon, come across, come on, come up against, come upon, discover serendipitously, encounter, fall in with, hit upon, light upon, meet up with, meet with, run across, run… … Moby Thesaurus
encounter — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. meet, come across; engage, struggle, contend. n. meeting, interview; collision, combat, battle, skirmish, brush, engagement. See contention, impulse, opposition, occurrence, contact. II (Roget s… … English dictionary for students
