appear, seem, look - give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time"

brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside - bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"

make pass, pass - cause to pass; "She passed around the plates"

disappear, vanish, go away - get lost, especially without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace"

recrudesce, develop, break - happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"

come up, arise - occur; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"

intervene - occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"

transpire - come about, happen, or occur; "Several important events transpired last week"

give - occur; "what gives?"

operate - happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"

supervene - take place as an additional or unexpected development

proceed, go - follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?"

come - come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June"

fall - occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"

anticipate - be a forerunner of or occur earlier than; "This composition anticipates Impressionism"

develop - be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly";

recur, repeat - happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story"

come off, go over, go off - happen in a particular manner; "how did your talk go over?"

roll around, come around - happen regularly; "Christmas rolled around again"

materialise, materialize, happen - come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"

bechance, befall, happen - happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)

bechance, befall, betide - become of; happen to; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?"

coincide, concur - happen simultaneously; "The two events coincided"

chance - be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"

break - happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months"

shine, strike, fall - touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears"

turn out - prove to be in the result or end; "It turns out that he was right"

contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize - happen at the same time

belch, burp, eruct, bubble - expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table"

force out - emit with force of effort; "force out the air"

give forth, emanate, exhale - give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick smoke"

eject, discharge, release, expel - eliminate (substances) from the body

radiate - send out real or metaphoric rays; "She radiates happiness"

bubble - form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling"