Accident - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause (syn: fortuity, stroke)
it was due to an accident or fortuity
Extra examples
He was injured in an accident at work.
The accident happened when her car slid on a patch of ice.
Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the accident.
Their meeting was an accident.
It is just an accident that they arrived when they did.
She says that her pregnancy was an accident.
We discovered it by accident.
It was by pure accident that we found the money.
It was pure accident that we met.
The police say the killing of the young man was an accident.
Over 70,000 people are killed or seriously injured every year in road accidents.
The accident happened at the junction of Forest Road and Pine Walk.
Ken had an accident at work and had to go to hospital.
I'm sorry about breaking the vase - it was an accident (=I did not intend to do it).
My third baby was an accident.
Word forms
singular: accident
plural: accidents
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