Definition of hap
Nouns
an accidental happening
"he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life"
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accident, chance event, fortuity, stroke
anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
Verbs
come to pass
"What is happening?"
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- come about, fall out, go on, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place
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break, develop, recrudesce
happen
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arise, come up
result or issue
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condense
develop due to condensation
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open, open up
become available
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come up
be mentioned
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result
come about or follow as a consequence
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intervene
occur between other event or between certain points of time
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transpire
come about, happen, or occur
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give
occur
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operate
happen
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supervene
take place as an additional or unexpected development
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go, proceed
follow a certain course
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drag, drag on, drag out
proceed for an extended period of time
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come, do, fare, get along, make out
proceed or get along
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come
come to pass; arrive, as in due course
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descend, fall, settle
come as if by falling
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fall
occur at a specified time or place
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anticipate
be a forerunner of or occur earlier than
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develop
be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
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recur, repeat
happen or occur again
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iterate
run or be performed again
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cycle
recur in repeating sequences
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come off, go off, go over
happen in a particular manner
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come around, roll around
happen regularly
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happen, materialise, materialize
come into being; become reality
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appear, come out
be issued or published
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bechance, befall, happen
happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
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bechance, befall, betide
become of; happen to
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coincide, concur
happen simultaneously
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backfire, backlash, recoil
come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
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chance
be the case by chance
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happen
chance to be or do something, without intention or causation
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break
happen or take place
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fall, shine, strike
touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
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turn out
prove to be in the result or end
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contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize
happen at the same time
Vocabulary Lists for hap
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" Intro + Chapters 1-7 »(650 words)
Vocabulary study list for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The...
- embroider
- imbue
- ignominy
- decapitate
- scaffold
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun »(384 words)
- sand dollar
- petty bourgeoisie
- petit bourgeois
- peckerwood
- Yoruba
Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" Chapters 11-20 »(180 words)
Vocabulary study list for Harper Lee's "To Kill a...
- ambidextrous
- undulate
- leftovers
- viscous
- myopic
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales - Beginning »(773 words)
Vocabulary words from The Canterbury Tales, from...
- Theseus
- narcotise
- citole
- drey
- girasol

