CO-OCCUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does co-occur mean? 

• CO-OCCUR (verb)
  The verb CO-OCCUR has 1 sense:

1. go with, fall together

  Familiarity information: CO-OCCUR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CO-OCCUR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they co-occur    ... he / she / it co-occurs   
Past simple: co-occurred   
Past participle: co-occurred   
-ing form: co-occurring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go with, fall together

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

co-occur; coincide; cooccur

Hypernyms (to "co-occur" is one way to...):

coexist; cohabit (exist together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "co-occur"):

overlap (coincide partially or wholly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

Nausea and/or vomiting co-occurring with a cycle of chemotherapy.

(Chemotherapy-Related Nausea and/or Vomiting, NCI Thesaurus)

For patients who had presented with deliberate self-harm, those with a comorbid diagnosis of bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, or a psychotic disorder were more likely to die by suicide than those without these co-occurring diagnoses.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

Anaemia, a disease caused by low concentration of haemoglobin in red blood cells, results primarily from a lack of iron in the diet but can co-occur with other conditions, such as malaria or genetic disorders.

(New approach promises better anaemia detection, SciDev.Net)

The researchers divided individuals presenting to the emergency department into three groups: people with deliberate self-harm with or without co-occurring suicidal ideation (85,507 patients), people presenting with suicidal ideation but without deliberate self-harm (67,379 patients), and people without either self-harm or suicidal ideation, called reference patients (497,760 patients).

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)