(~s, ~ring, ~red)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
When something ~s, it happens.
If headaches only ~ at night, lack of fresh air and oxygen is often the cause...
The crash ~red when the crew shut down the wrong engine...
In March 1770, there ~red what became known as the Boston Massacre.
VERB: V, V, there V n
2.
When something ~s in a particular place, it exists or is present there.
The cattle disease ~s more or less anywhere in Africa where the fly ~s...
These snails do not ~ on low-lying coral islands or atolls.
= exist
VERB: V adv/prep, V adv/prep
3.
If a thought or idea ~s to you, you suddenly think of it or realize it.
It did not ~ to me to check my insurance policy...
The same idea had ~red to Elizabeth.
VERB: no passive, no cont, it V to n to-inf, V to n