accident
/ˈæk.sə.dənt/ noun A2- 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) · There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.· My insurance went up after the second accident in three months.
- Any chance event.
- Chance; random chance.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive. · Beauty is an accident.· Lexical gaps are called accidental because their existence is by accident; it is not essential.
- A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- An instance of incontinence.
Plural accidents
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As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.
Bagheera followed in case of accidents.
“Some day thou wilt remember me.” Then he turned aside to tell Bagheera how he had begged the Master Words from Hathi the Wild Elephant, who knows all about these things, and how Hathi had taken Mowgli down to a pool to get the Snake Word from a water-snake, because Baloo could not pronounce it, and how Mowgli was now reasonably safe against all accidents in the jungle, because neither snake, bird, nor beast would hurt him.
Then he curled up ready for any accident, his head lowered.
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