accident
IPA: ˈæksʌdʌnt
noun
- 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.
- (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
- (transport) 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)
- Any chance event.
- (uncountable) Chance; random chance.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
- (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
- Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
- (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
- (derogatory or humorous) A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
- (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
- (geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
- (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- A town in Maryland, United States.
adjective
- (transport) Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
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Examples of "accident" in Sentences
- The accident caused a huge damage.
- The accident caused severe damage.
- I saved a child from the car accident.
- My car was marred because of the accident.
- His jaw hurts because of the car accident.
- The man broke the rib due to a car accident.
- They use the term accident to designate any contingent
- The accident caused reparable damage, and nobody was injured.
- Then the deranged assailant is brought in, the victim of a car accident.
- The car disintegrated and Warwick was ejected from the car in the accident.
- Mann's car was overturned in the accident, but she was unhurt in the incident.
- And all learned doctors will agree to this, if only they understand what the term accident means.
- It's common for people to use the word accident for crashes, yet, it's an unfortunate -- and inadequate -- habit.
- I hesitate to use the word "accident" because neither the Exxon Valdez oil spill nor the BP disaster were accidents.
- And the finding and maintaining happiness is a definite achievement and not an accident, for _it is beyond accident_.
- I am sure Nick would have yielded the right of way to this woman if he had been able to see her, hence the term accident, with nobody contributing and causing it.
- For languages have a natural but not a perfect growth; like other creations of nature into which the will of man enters, they are full of what we term accident and irregularity.
- "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