Another word for hap

The quality shared by random, unintended, or unpredictable events or this quality regarded as the cause of such events

• luck

  1. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; fortune:
  2. Good fortune or prosperity; success:
  3. One's personal fate or lot:

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  1. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; fortune:
  2. Good fortune or prosperity; success:
  3. One's personal fate or lot:

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• hazard

  1. A chance of being injured or harmed:
  2. Risk or danger:
  3. A possible source of danger:

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  1. A chance of being injured or harmed:
  2. Risk or danger:
  3. A possible source of danger:

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• fortune

  1. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck:
  2. The turns of luck in the course of one's life.
  3. Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck:

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  1. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck:
  2. The turns of luck in the course of one's life.
  3. Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck:

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• fortuity

  1. A chance occurrence or event.
  2. The quality or condition of being fortuitous.

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  1. A chance occurrence or event.
  2. The quality or condition of being fortuitous.

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• fortuitousness

  1. The quality of being fortuitous

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  1. The quality of being fortuitous

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• chance

  1. The unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause.
  2. A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck:
  3. The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability:

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  1. The unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause.
  2. A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck:
  3. The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability:

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An unexpected random event

• hazard

  1. A chance of being injured or harmed:
  2. Risk or danger:
  3. A possible source of danger:

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  1. A chance of being injured or harmed:
  2. Risk or danger:
  3. A possible source of danger:

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• happenstance

  1. A chance circumstance:

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  1. A chance circumstance:

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• happenchance

  1. A happenstance.

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  1. A happenstance.

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• fortuity

  1. A chance occurrence or event.
  2. The quality or condition of being fortuitous.

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  1. A chance occurrence or event.
  2. The quality or condition of being fortuitous.

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• fluke

  1. Any of numerous parasitic flatworms, including the trematodes, some of which infect humans, and the monogeneans, which are chiefly ectoparasites of fish.
  2. Any of various flatfishes chiefly of the genus Paralichthys, especially the summer flounder.

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  1. Any of numerous parasitic flatworms, including the trematodes, some of which infect humans, and the monogeneans, which are chiefly ectoparasites of fish.
  2. Any of various flatfishes chiefly of the genus Paralichthys, especially the summer flounder.

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• chance

  1. The unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause.
  2. A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck:
  3. The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability:

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  1. The unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause.
  2. A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck:
  3. The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability:

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• accident

  1. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm:
  2. An unforeseen event that is not the result of intention or has no apparent cause:
  3. An instance of involuntary urination or defecation.

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  1. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm:
  2. An unforeseen event that is not the result of intention or has no apparent cause:
  3. An instance of involuntary urination or defecation.

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To take place

• transpire

  1. To come about; happen or occur.
  2. To become known; come to light.
  3. To give off vapor containing waste products, as through animal or plant pores.

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  1. To come about; happen or occur.
  2. To become known; come to light.
  3. To give off vapor containing waste products, as through animal or plant pores.

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• pass

  1. To move on or ahead; proceed:
  2. To extend; run:
  3. To move by or in front of something:

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  1. To move on or ahead; proceed:
  2. To extend; run:
  3. To move by or in front of something:

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• occur

  1. To take place; come about.
  2. To be found to exist or appear:
  3. To come to mind:

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  1. To take place; come about.
  2. To be found to exist or appear:
  3. To come to mind:

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• happen

  1. To come to pass:
  2. To come about as a consequence; result:
  3. To be the fate; become:

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  1. To come to pass:
  2. To come about as a consequence; result:
  3. To be the fate; become:

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• develop

  1. To bring from latency to or toward fulfillment:
  2. To expand or enlarge:
  3. To aid in the growth of; strengthen:

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  1. To bring from latency to or toward fulfillment:
  2. To expand or enlarge:
  3. To aid in the growth of; strengthen:

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• come off

  1. To become detached.
  2. To have some success, to succeed.
  3. (dated) To have an orgasm.

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  1. To become detached.
  2. To have some success, to succeed.
  3. (dated) To have an orgasm.

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• come about

  1. To come to pass; to develop; to occur; to take place; to happen.
  2. (nautical) To tack; to change tack; to maneuver the bow of a sailing vessel across the wind so that the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to position a boat with respect to the wind after tacking. See also come to.

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  1. To come to pass; to develop; to occur; to take place; to happen.
  2. (nautical) To tack; to change tack; to maneuver the bow of a sailing vessel across the wind so that the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to position a boat with respect to the wind after tacking. See also come to.

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• come

  1. in the second person, with relation to the speaker
  2. in the first person, with relation to the person addressed
  3. in the third person, with relation to the person or thing approached

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  1. in the second person, with relation to the speaker
  2. in the first person, with relation to the person addressed
  3. in the third person, with relation to the person or thing approached

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• betide

  1. To happen to. Used chiefly in the phrase woe betide.
  2. To take place; befall.

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  1. To happen to. Used chiefly in the phrase woe betide.
  2. To take place; befall.

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• befall

  1. To come to pass; happen:
  2. Used with the impersonal subject it and a following clause to indicate the occurrence of a usually unexpected or chance event:
  3. To happen to:

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  1. To come to pass; happen:
  2. Used with the impersonal subject it and a following clause to indicate the occurrence of a usually unexpected or chance event:
  3. To happen to:

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To take place by chance

• happen

  1. To come to pass:
  2. To come about as a consequence; result:
  3. To be the fate; become:

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  1. To come to pass:
  2. To come about as a consequence; result:
  3. To be the fate; become:

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• chance

  1. The unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause.
  2. A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck:
  3. The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability:

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  1. The unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause.
  2. A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck:
  3. The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability:

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• befall

  1. To come to pass; happen:
  2. Used with the impersonal subject it and a following clause to indicate the occurrence of a usually unexpected or chance event:
  3. To happen to:

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  1. To come to pass; happen:
  2. Used with the impersonal subject it and a following clause to indicate the occurrence of a usually unexpected or chance event:
  3. To happen to:

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