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happened by

happened by is the simple past and past participle of happen by.

Meaning of happen by

Verb

happen by (third-person singular simple present happens by, present participle happening by, simple past and past participle happened by)

  1. (US, dated, transitive) to come across, to chance upon, to find unexpectedly or accidentally
    Synonyms:
    happen upon
  2. (US, dated, intransitive) to show up unexpectedly or accidentally

Questions about happened by

What is happened by the simple past and past participle of?
Happened by is the simple past and past participle of happen by.

Words near happened by in the dictionary

  1. happenchances
  2. happend
  3. happened
  4. happened across
  5. happened along
  6. happened by
  7. happened on
  8. happened upon
  9. happener
  10. happeners
  11. happenest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: happened by (page history and authors); happen by (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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