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S: (v) pass off (be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity) "She passed off as a Russian agent"

S: (v) pass off (disregard) "She passed off the insult"
S: (v) pass off (cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity) "She passed the glass off as diamonds"; "He passed himself off as a secret agent"
S: (v) evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass (disappear gradually) "The pain eventually passed off"
S: (v) happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place (come to pass) "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

S: (v) break, recrudesce, develop (happen) "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
S: (v) arise, come up (result or issue) "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"

S: (v) condense (develop due to condensation) "All our planets condensed out of the same material"
S: (v) open, open up (become available) "an opportunity opened up"
S: (v) come up (be mentioned) "These names came up in the discussion"

S: (v) result (come about or follow as a consequence) "nothing will result from this meeting"
S: (v) intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time) "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"
S: (v) transpire (come about, happen, or occur) "Several important events transpired last week"
S: (v) give (occur) "what gives?"
S: (v) supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)
S: (v) proceed, go (follow a certain course) "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?"

S: (v) drag, drag on, drag out (proceed for an extended period of time) "The speech dragged on for two hours"
S: (v) do, fare, make out, come, get along (proceed or get along) "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way"

S: (v) 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"

S: (v) fall, descend, settle (come as if by falling) "Night fell"; "Silence fell"

S: (v) fall (occur at a specified time or place) "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"
S: (v) anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than) "This composition anticipates Impressionism"
S: (v) develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest) "The plot developed slowly"
S: (v) recur, repeat (happen or occur again) "This is a recurring story"

S: (v) go off, come off, go over (happen in a particular manner) "how did your talk go over?"
S: (v) come around, roll around (happen regularly) "Christmas rolled around again"
S: (v) happen, materialize, materialise (come into being; become reality) "Her dream really materialized"

S: (v) appear, come out (be issued or published) "Did your latest book appear yet?"; "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet"

S: (v) happen, befall, bechance (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)
S: (v) befall, bechance, betide (become of; happen to) "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?"
S: (v) concur, coincide (happen simultaneously) "The two events coincided"
S: (v) backfire, backlash, recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect) "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"; "the political movie backlashed on the Democrats"
S: (v) chance (be the case by chance) "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"

S: (v) happen (chance to be or do something, without intention or causation) "I happen to have just what you need!"

S: (v) break (happen or take place) "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months"
S: (v) fall, shine, strike (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"
S: (v) turn out (prove to be in the result or end) "It turns out that he was right"
S: (v) synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise (happen at the same time)