Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To happen; chance.

    happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance

  2. (archaic, transitive)To happen (to); befall to.

    become of; happen to

Forms

bechances, bechancing, bechanced, bechanced
Base formbechance · to bechance
3rd person singularbechances
Present participlebechancing
Past simplebechanced
Past participlebechanced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybechance
he, she, itbechances

Past simpleLesson

all personsbechanced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bechanced
he, she, ithas bechanced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bechance

Synonyms

6 synonyms
occurB1transpire
to happen:come to pass
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
becauseA1beckbeckon

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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