What is the meaning of ACCIDENT. Phrases containing ACCIDENT
See meanings and uses of ACCIDENT!Slangs & AI meanings
The ocean. eg. "I accidentally dropped my cap in the Oggie."
Accident is British slang for an arrest.
Peddler who sells magazines, candy, fruit, 'etc., in trains. Usually employed nowadays by Union News Co. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, was a news butcher in his youth and became deaf when a conductor boxed his ears for accidentally starting a fire while experimenting in a baggage car near Smith Creek, Mich.
to accidently get pregnant (usually outside of marriage)
A heavy metal box used to patch a hole made in the side of the ship through enemy action, or accidentally through a collision.
A rail that comes loose from the ties and pierces the floor of a car; a fairly common accident with the strap-iron rails of a century ago
Phrs. Seemingly accidental but with veiled malice or harm.
The net that is normally placed below the brow. Its role is to catch anyone that accidently falls off the brow.
To ram, by accident or purposely.
ACCIDENT
ACCIDENT
ACCIDENT
ACCIDENT
ACCIDENT
ACCIDENT
ACCIDENT
supperl.
Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune.
n.
A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.
n.
A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.
v. t.
Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
n.
An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.
a.
Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
n.
Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
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; as, to die by an accident.
a.
Inconvenient; troublesome; vexatious; unlucky; unfortunate; as, an untoward wind or accident.
n.
The quality of being accidental; accidentalness.
n.
Accidental character or effect.
n.
The quality of being accidental; casualness.
adv.
Unintentionally; accidentally.
n.
That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which constitutes anything what it is; real or existing essence.
a.
Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.
a.
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.
adv.
In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
a.
Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
a.
To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.
n.
A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
ACCIDENT
ACCIDENT
ACCIDENT