occurred
- 1Simple past and past participle of occur.
The earthquake occurred without warning and toppled several buildings.
No errors had occurred during the overnight processing.
Note
Because occur is intransitive, its past participle forms perfect tenses with have (had occurred, has occurred) but never a passive. "The accident was occurred" is an error. The doubled r follows the stress on the final syllable, as in referred and deferred, while offered keeps a single r. When the meaning is a thought arriving, the construction is impersonal: it occurred to her that the door was unlocked.
- 2Simple past and past participle of occurre, an obsolete form of occur.
Note
Here the old spelling of the base disappears in the inflection. Both occurre and occur give occurred, so a past-tense form in an older text looks entirely modern and gives no hint of which base the writer used. Its grammar matches the modern past form: it is intransitive and forms its perfect with have. Only the present tense and the infinitive show the obsolete spelling.
occurred is a form of occur
occur, verb: To happen or arise, usually at a particular time or in particular circumstances. Full entry
- Spelling
- occur → occurred: double the r, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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