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accident
/ˈæk.sə.dənt/
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What does accident mean?
noun
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
- A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
More meanings (15)
noun
- Any chance event.
- Chance; random chance.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
- A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- An instance of incontinence.
- Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
- An unintended pregnancy.
- An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
- A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
- A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- Synonym of accidental.
- (derogatory, humorous) A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
- (obsolete) An injury.
adjective
- Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
proper noun
- A town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
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He was embittered by the conviction that all this desolation had been brought about by the accident of her being a d’Urberville.
Aubrey lingered to be the last, and it is to be conjectured that Titania did not drop her handkerchief merely by accident.
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Surely there is some horrible doom hanging over us that every possible accident should thwart us in all we try to do.
Just before the event she, simulating the hostess, telephoned that an accident had taken place and the party would not be given.
The only effect of such a plan would be to eliminate the few who now slip through owing to some fortunate accident.