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accident::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | chance event, fortuity, stroke |
| Type of | occurrent, natural event, occurrence, happening |
| Has types | break, happy chance, happenstance, hap, lottery, good luck, coincidence |
| Derivation | accidental |
winning the lottery was a happy accident.
it was due to an accident or fortuity.
accident::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | mischance, mishap, misadventure |
| Has types | crash, fatal accident, accidental injury, casualty, collision, injury, shipwreck, wreck |
Examples of accident
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He asked around Torrance, hoping to find anyone who might remember the accident.
From the kentucky.com
My roommates and I stumbled upon it by accident on a random weekday this summer.
From the sfgate.com
He and his wife would be right there in case of an accident or a health problem.
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Before the accident, the Deepwater Horizon was valued at more than $500 million.
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They are often used by investigators to piece together the cause of an accident.
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In that accident, the driver of the Focus was cited for failure to reduce speed.
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That might go back to before Roethlisberger's motorcycle accident in June, 2006.
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The accident report does not say if there were only five individuals in the car.
From the indianolarecordherald.desmoinesregister.com
The 2009 accident was a demonstration of what happens when the two planes cross.
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- An unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury
- Anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity"
- An accident is a specific, unexpected, unusual and unintended external action which occurs in a particular time and place, with no apparent and deliberate cause but with marked effects. ...
- Accident (German: Polizeibericht u00DCberfall) is a 1928 German short film directed by Ernu00F6 Metzner.
- Accident is Harold Pinter's 1967 dramatic film adaptation of the 1965 novel by Nicholas Mosley. Directed by Joseph Losey, it is the second of three collaborations between Pinter and Losey, the others being The Servant (1963) and The Go-Between (1970). ...
- Accident is a 1985 Kannada movie directed by Shankar Nag, starring his elder brother Anant Nag.
- Accident is a thriller movie written and directed by Ramesh Aravind. Its cast includes Ramesh Aravind, Rekha and Pooja Gandhi.
- Accident , originally titled Assassins , is a 2009 Hong Kong action thriller directed by Soi Cheang, produced by Johnnie To and starring Louis Koo, and Richie Ren. Accident competed at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 17 September 2009.
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences; Any chance event; Chance; An unintended event such as a collision that causes damage or death; Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential; ...
