chance
/t͡ʃæns/ [t͡ʃʰæns] verb C2- To try or risk. · Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?
- To discover something by chance. · He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.
- To rob, cheat or swindle someone. · The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman.
- To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.
He/she/it chances · Past chanced · Past participle chanced · -ing form chancing
Verb forms
- Base form
- chance
- He/she/it
- chances
- Past
- chanced
- Past participle
- chanced
- -ing form
- chancing
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Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full effect, and she grew no larger: still it was very uncomfortable, and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.
As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent.
Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun “Well, of all the unjust things—” when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round also, and all of them bowed low.
In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them—“I wish they’d get the trial done,” she thought, “and hand round the refreshments!” But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time.
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