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n. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: car accidents on icy roads.

n. An unforeseen incident: A series of happy accidents led to his promotion.

n. An instance of involuntary urination or defecation in one's clothing.

n. Lack of intention; chance: ran into an old friend by accident.

n. Logic A circumstance or attribute that is not essential to the nature of something.

n. An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.

n. Any chance event.

n. Chance.

n. An unintended event such as a collision that causes damage or death.

n. Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.

n. An instance of incontinence.

n. An unintended pregnancy.

n. A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

n. A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

n. An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.

n. A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

n. casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.

n. An unplanned event that results in injury (including death) or occupational illness to person(s) and/or damage to property, exclusive of injury and/or damage caused by action of an enemy or hostile force.

n. Appearance, manifestation.

n. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap.

n. A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

n. A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

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n. A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

n. A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

n. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential.

n. Unusual appearance or effect.

n. In general, anything that happens or begins to be without design, or as an unforeseen effect; that which falls out by chance; a fortuitous event or circumstance.

n. Specifically, an undesirable or unfortunate happening; an undesigned harm or injury; a casualty or mishap.

n. The operation of chance; an undesigned contingency; a happening without intentional causation; chance; fortune: as, it was the result of accident; I was there by accident.

n. That which exists or occurs abnormally; something unusual or phenomenal; an uncommon occurrence or appearance.

n. Irregularity; unevenness; abruptness.

n. An irregularity of surface; an undulation: as, the enemy was favored by the accidents of the ground.

n. A non-essential.

n. In grammar, a variation or inflection of a word, not essential to its primary signification, but marking a modification of its relation, as gender, number, and case. See accidence.

n. Synonyms Chance, mischance, hap, mishap, fortune, misfortune, luck, bad luck, casualty, calamity, disaster.

n. Property, Attribute, etc. See quality.

n. an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury

n. anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause

""Oh, mamma!" she cried, jerking off her bonnet, and throwing herself down on a stool at her mother's feet, "we have had such a dreadful accident, or hardly an _accident_ either, for I feel perfectly certain"

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