| accident |
"Accident" is chance or luck. When something happens by accident, it happens without any particular reason or anybody hoping or expecting it to happen. [1/2 definitions] |
| bump |
to knock against or hit, often by accident. [1/7 definitions] |
| bump into |
(informal) to meet by accident or chance. |
| by accident |
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. |
| chance |
the quality of happening by accident and without being planned or predicted. [3/8 definitions] |
| deliberate |
When an action is deliberate, it is done on purpose. It is done because of a desire or plan. It is not done by accident. [1/3 definitions] |
| find |
to come upon or meet by accident. [1/6 definitions] |
| fold1 |
A fold is a section of a piece of paper or cloth that has been bent back over another section. A fold can be part of a design or it can be made by accident. [1/7 definitions] |
| leak |
an opening or crack that lets something pass out or in by accident. [1/5 definitions] |
| meeting |
A meeting is the act of coming together in the same place with another person or with a group of people. Some meetings are planned and some happen by accident. [1/3 definitions] |
| on purpose |
not by accident; deliberately. |
| skin |
to scrape skin from, by accident. [1/5 definitions] |
| slide |
to slip or slip down by accident. [1/11 definitions] |
| spill1 |
A spill is an amount of liquid or other substance that has fallen out of a container by accident. [1/5 definitions] |
| spill the beans |
to tell a secret by accident or on purpose. |
| stub |
to strike against something by accident. [1/3 definitions] |
| tear2 |
to damage or make a hole in by accidental ripping. [1/7 definitions] |
| unlucky |
If a person is unlucky, bad things happen to them just by chance or by accident. They don't have good luck. If a thing is unlucky, it's a bad thing and it happened because of bad luck, or it causes something bad to happen. [1/2 definitions] |