occur to
Third Person
occurs to
Present Participle
occurring to
Past Tense
occurred to
Past Participle
occurred to
1
(of thoughts and ideas) to come to someone's mind
transitive
- It often occurs to me that I should call my parents more often.
- Ideas for new projects frequently occur to the creative team.
- It occurred to her that she had left her keys at home.
- The solution suddenly occurred to me during the meeting.
- As I was reading the book, an interesting idea occurred to me.