Word Finder - accident

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An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.

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to die by an accident

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Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.

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My insurance went up after the second accident in three months.

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Any chance event.

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Chance.

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Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.

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Beauty is an accident.

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An instance of incontinence.

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An unintended pregnancy.

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A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

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(grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.

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An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.

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A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.

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A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

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Casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.

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Appearance, manifestation.

A car accident killed them both.

How did the accident happen?

It was an accident, wasn't it?

There was a serious accident last night and the sheriff's deputy was unable to raise help when she called from the mountains.

Won't most of the people know about your accident and loss of memory?

Just before the accident, I heard a siren and then saw a white car speeding down the mountain.

We just received word of a horrific accident about ten miles up the road.

You can then divide the world into redheads and non-redheads and compare their accident records.

Prince Andrew listened attentively to Bagration's colloquies with the commanding officers and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders were really given, but that Prince Bagration tried to make it appear that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least in accord with his intentions.

The third part of the Summa is also divided into two parts, but by accident rather than by design.

There was a canoeing accident, up in Canada.

If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter--we never need read of another.

He left the scene of the accident before he gave me a statement.

We caught up to accident in six or seven minutes.

He knew that it was a lost battle and that the least accident might now--with the fight balanced on such a strained center--destroy him and his army.

She cleared her throat, then said, My, uh, kids lost their parents in a car accident a few years ago.

Not only did the intensifying snow make climbing even more dangerous than usual, but Shipton's accident had cloaked a pall over everyone's activities.

Dean could tell by the look on her face that Lydia wanted to forget about Billy Langstrom and the accident, but she answered.

You had a little accident.

With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it.

By accident, she said, recalling Darian's words about the portal.

While Dean remained distressed over the accident, he knew he must concentrate on the Women's Club debate just hours away.

To throw that away because of an accident of circumstance would be a tragedy.

He wasn't drowned in a fishing accident, was he?

Do you always visit the relatives of accident victims on your personal time?

There wasn't any liquor at the accident site when I left and you said a bottle had been found.

Sometimes they achieve rare beauty by accident.

You didn't answer me the other night when I asked you why the accident freaked you out so much.

There was an accident.

He heard others as they expertly rappelled down past him to the accident site.

He did so now, describing Lydia's reluctance in descending to the accident, but glossing over just how petrified she'd been.

I was the first one to the accident scene and I pitched the bottle—the only bottle.

You can.t tell me this was an accident!

How did he act when his stepfather had his accident up in the ice park?

Sarah made her forget the attack and think she had an accident.

She'd been learning how to defend herself and watching how his people operated for a few days before the accident.

There wasn't any evidence to suggest other than an unfortunate accident.

If you had admitted your suspicions early on that Jeff's death might not have been an accident, perhaps we could have worked together and gotten to the bottom of the whole business before you almost got us both killed.

He chuckled – the first time he had done so since the accident.

Alright, I accept responsibility for killing your horse, but it was an accident.

From what I read, the cooking show was an accident.

Close to the latter stand the new supreme court, the old age and accident state insurance offices, the chief custom house, and the concert hall, founded by Karl Laeisz, a former Hamburg wharfinger.

Rhyn led them down the main floor and out the front door, slamming into one of Kris.s Immortals by accident.

Unless I'm off base, the knife wasn't left by accident.

Maybe it was left up there to implicate you, but there's a good chance it was just plain dropped by accident.

That was a onetime accident, buddy.

Like I told you, it was just a stupid accident.

He wasn't dressed like opening night at the opera by accident!

She circled his neck with both arms – the first time she had done so since the accident.

Too coincidental to be an accident.