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by accident en · ADJ
Meanings
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Accidental; as the result of some unforeseen happening or series of events; unexpected; resulting from an event without the foresight, expectation, aid, or design of the person by whose agency it was caused; unintentional.
The victim's death was by accident.
That the injury was by accident is not questioned.
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Synonyms
unintended · incidental · causeless
by accident en · ADV
Meanings
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Accidentally; unintentionally; without meaning to; as the result of an event not expected, aided, or willingly planned.
Sorry. I knocked over the vase by accident.
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As the result of some undesigned, unintended, unrelated, natural, or random occurrence; as the unexpected and unforeseen result of formerly unrelated factors.
The scholar thinks the quote and the parable were spoken on different occasions and only by accident were brought together here.
The only way that project still exists today is by accident; I thought we closed it years ago.
The car got totaled by accident; a giant snowdrift fell off the church roof.
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By chance; unexpectedly; as the result of an unrelated series of events.
I hadn't seen her for years, but I ran into her by accident at the store.
She overheard the information by accident.
Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee.
a. 1886, Richard Chenevix Trench, Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident:
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Relateds
on purpose · on accident