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by accident

adverb 3
adjective 1
forms 2

adverb3

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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 car got totaled by accident; a giant snowdrift fell off the church roof.
- The only way that project still exists today is by accident; I thought we closed it years ago.
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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.

adjective1

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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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