Definitions for occurs

occurs oc·cur

Spelling: [uh-kur]
IPA: /əˈkɜr/

Occurs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in occurs (ccorsu).

Definitions for occurs

verb (used without object)

  1. to happen; take place; come to pass:
  2. to be met with or found; present itself; appear.
  3. to suggest itself in thought; come to mind (usually followed by to):

Origin of occurs

1520-30; Latin occurrere to run to meet, arrive, meet, equivalent to oc- oc- + currere to run

Examples for occurs

The “bamboo basket” is a Moses motive which occurs in other Chinese fairy-tales.

After much hesitation, it occurs to him that there may be a face in it somewhere.

And, typing that, it occurs to me how rarely we hear modern Americans use the word happy without an odor of irony.

As occurs in every economic transition some benefited some at the expense of others.

The opposite phenomenon also occurs: neglected writers who ascend to prominence only posthumously.

Especially with something this big, you have the natural process that kind of occurs with everybody.

About this time it occurs to the stage manager that the play might as well end.

I was foolish never to think of that possibility, it occurs so often.

Not infrequently it occurs that a person who has paid to get in pays twice as much to get out.

It occurs to me that Mount must assume that Hitchcock has read it--after all, it came from him.

Word Value for occurs
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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