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Accident   /ˈæksədənt/   Listen
Accident

noun
1.
An unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury.
2.
Anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause.  Synonyms: chance event, fortuity, stroke.  "The pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck" , "It was due to an accident or fortuity"



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"Accident" Quotes from Famous Books



... past to me as if in separate pictures, this and that accident that befell us showing much more clear and bright than things quite as important which lie between. I remember but dimly all the sad time of our father's death and burial, the grief I myself felt, and all the bustle and stir about us, making those days cloudy to me; but all the more plainly ...
— Andrew Golding - A Tale of the Great Plague • Anne E. Keeling
... woman you may sorely need before this expedition is done. Second, you deny a human being who is just as eager as you are for life and the spice of adventure, just as hungry for excitement as you or any man here—you deny me all this, everything, just because a stupid accident of ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England
... they found the guard there, battering in the bank doors. Benito, fearing for the life of Tony, which if anyone took should be taken by him, rushed upon the sergeant of the guard, explaining with both lips and hands the remarkable accident which had precipitated ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... by a side-door opening from the Quai Jemmapes upon a narrow courtyard a few steps lower than the Quai itself. Bourzat remained at this door to warn us in case of any accident, and to point out the house to those Representatives who might ...
— The History of a Crime - The Testimony of an Eye-Witness • Victor Hugo
... of this accident, which came near being the death of all on board, was nothing but the drowsiness of the look-out men on the forecastles of both ships. The sailor who had the look-out on our vessel was terribly ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville


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