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- See:
- accident
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If you do something by accident, you do it without any plan or intention to do it. It just happens. Bad things often happen by accident without anybody wanting or planning for them to happen. Good things sometimes happen by accident too.
I stepped on Joel's foot by accident on the bus. I didn't mean to do it, but he was mad at me anyway.Briana's sister sent a text to Allison by accident. She meant to send it to Alyssa.- antonyms:
- on purpose
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