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- might-have-been
an event that could have occurred but never did - nonevent
an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected - happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
an event that happens - accompaniment, co-occurrence, concomitant, attendant
an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another - associate
any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another - avalanche
a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things - background
relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation - experience
an event as apprehended - appalling
an experience that appalls - sign, augury, foretoken, preindication
an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come - war cloud
an ominous sign that war threatens - prognostication, prodigy, omen, portent, presage, prognostic
a sign of something about to happen - auspice
a favorable omen - foreboding
an unfavorable omen - death knell
an omen of death or destruction - flash, flashing
a short vivid experience - blast, good time
a highly pleasurable or exciting experience - loss
the experience of losing a loved one - near-death experience
the experience of being close to death but surviving - ordeal
a severe or trying experience - out-of-body experience
the dissociative experience of observing yourself from an external perspective as though your mind or soul had left and was observing your body - taste
a brief experience of something - time
a person's experience on a particular occasion - trip, head trip
an exciting or stimulating experience - vision
a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance - social event
an event characteristic of persons forming groups - miracle
a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent - trouble
an event causing distress or pain - treat
an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight - miracle
any amazing or wonderful occurrence - wonder, marvel
something that causes feelings of wonder - thing
an event - episode
a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events - feast
something experienced with great delight - drama, dramatic event
an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional - night terror
an emotional episode (usually in young children) in which the person awakens in terror with feelings of anxiety and fear but is unable to remember any incident that might have provoked those feelings - eventuality, contingency, contingence
a possible event or occurrence or result - beginning
the event consisting of the start of something - casus belli
an event used to justify starting a war - conclusion, ending, finish
event whose occurrence ends something - end, last, final stage
the concluding parts of an event or occurrence - endgame, end game
the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board - endgame, end game
the final stages of an extended process of negotiation - homestretch
the end of an enterprise - passing
the end of something - termination, resultant, result, final result, outcome
something that results - denouement
the outcome of a complex sequence of events - deal
the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement) - fair deal, square deal
fair treatment - raw deal
unfair treatment - decision
the outcome of a game or contest - decision
(boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred - split decision
a boxing decision in which the judges are not unanimous - consequence, aftermath
the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual - corollary
a practical consequence that follows naturally - deserts, comeuppance, comeupance
an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved - fruit
the consequence of some effort or action - sequella
a secondary consequence - train
a series of consequences wrought by an event - poetic justice, just deserts
an outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically) - offspring, materialization, materialisation
something that comes into existence as a result - separation
the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal) - subsequence, sequel
something that follows something else - reward, wages, payoff
a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing - foregone conclusion, matter of course
an inevitable ending - worst
the least favorable outcome - one-off
a happening that occurs only once and is not repeated - periodic event, recurrent event
an event that recurs at intervals - change, alteration, modification
an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another - avulsion
an abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another - break
an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion) - mutation
a change or alteration in form or qualities - sublimation
(psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable - surprise
a sudden unexpected event - bombshell, thunderbolt, thunderclap
a shocking surprise - coup de theatre
a dramatic surprise - eye opener
something surprising and revealing - peripeteia, peripetia, peripety
a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) - blow, shock
an unpleasant or disappointing surprise - blip
a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption - stunner
an unexpected and amazing event - error, computer error
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer - hardware error
error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer - disk error
error resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk - software error, programming error
error resulting from bad code in some program involved in producing the erroneous result - semantic error, run-time error, runtime error
an error in logic or arithmetic that must be detected at run time - syntax error
an error of language resulting from code that does not conform to the syntax of the programming language - algorithm error
error resulting from the choice of the wrong algorithm or method for achieving the intended result - stroke, accident, fortuity, chance event
anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause - accident
an unfortunate mishap - collision
an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object - near miss
an accidental collision that is narrowly avoided - crash, wreck
a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) - prang
a crash involving a car or plane - derailment
an accident in which a train runs off its track - ground loop
a sharp uncontrollable turn made by an airplane while moving along the ground - hit, collision
(physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together - fire
the event of something burning (often destructive) - backfire
a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path - bonfire, balefire
a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration - brush fire
an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes - campfire
a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp) - conflagration, inferno
a very intense and uncontrolled fire - forest fire
an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area - grassfire, prairie fire
an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area - smoulder, smolder
a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame - smudge
a smoky fire to drive away insects - crown fire
a forest fire that advances with great speed jumping from crown to crown ahead of the ground fire - ground fire
a forest fire that burns the humus - surface fire
a forest fire that burns only the surface litter and undergrowth - wildfire
a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration - misfortune, bad luck
unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event - pity, shame
an unfortunate development - affliction
a cause of great suffering and distress - convulsion
a physical disturbance such as an earthquake or upheaval - embarrassment
some event that causes someone to be embarrassed - disembarrassment
something that extricates you from embarrassment - hell, blaze
a cause of difficulty and suffering - calvary, martyrdom
any experience that causes intense suffering - onslaught
a sudden and severe onset of trouble - outrage, scandal
a disgraceful event - skeleton, skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard
a scandal that is kept secret - chapter
a series of related events forming an episode - idyll
an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll - incident
a single distinct event - cause celebre
an incident that attracts great public attention - discharge
the sudden giving off of energy - electrical discharge
a discharge of electricity - impulse, nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse
the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber - action potential
the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted - spike
a transient variation in voltage or current - explosion, detonation, blowup
a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction - example, case, instance
an occurrence of something - humiliation, mortification
an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect - bit, piece
an instance of some kind - time, clip
an instance or single occasion for some event - motion, movement
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something - crustal movement, tectonic movement
movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust - approach, approaching
the event of one object coming closer to another - passing, passage
the motion of one object relative to another - deflection, deflexion
the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position - bending, bend
movement that causes the formation of a curve - travel, change of location
a movement through space that changes the location of something - fender-bender
a collision between motor vehicles that produces minor damage - ascension
(astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon - circulation
free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant) - creep
a slow longitudinal movement or deformation - migration
the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding - migration
(chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule - shrinking, shrinkage
process or result of becoming less or smaller - compression, condensation, contraction
the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together - constriction, coarctation
tight or narrow compression - injury, accidental injury
an accident that results in physical damage or hurt - break, breach, severance, rupture, rift, falling out
a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) - schism
the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences - hap
an accidental happening - mishap, misadventure, mischance
an instance of misfortune - puncture
loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object - disaster, tragedy, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune - act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty
a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events - apocalypse
a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil - famine
a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death - the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity
a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight - kiss of death
something that is ruinous - meltdown
a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown - plague
any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) - visitation
any disaster or catastrophe - break, good luck, happy chance
an unexpected piece of good luck - coincidence, happenstance
an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental - lottery
something that is regarded as a chance event - pileup
multiple collisions of vehicles - smash, smash-up
a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles) - slip, trip
an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall - failure
an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose - ruin, ruination, downfall
failure that results in a loss of position or reputation - flame-out
a complete or conspicuous failure - malfunction
a failure to function normally - blowout
a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus - stall
a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge - success
an event that accomplishes its intended purpose - barnburner
an impressively successful event - Godspeed
a successful journey - abortion, miscarriage
failure of a plan - miss, misfire
a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) - egress, emergence, issue
the becoming visible - eruption
the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum - birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
the event of being born - delivery
the event of giving birth - live birth
the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation) - blessed event, happy event
the live birth of a child - posthumous birth
birth of a child by Caesarean section after the death of the mother - posthumous birth
birth of a child after the father has died - rebirth, reincarnation, renascence
a second or new birth - transmigration
the passing of a soul into another body after death - cycle of rebirth
(Hinduism) repeated rebirth in new forms - moksa
(Hinduism) release from the cycle of rebirth - appearance
the event of coming into sight - reappearance
the event of something appearing again - egress, emersion
(astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse - ingress, immersion
(astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse