BY ACCIDENT

Chance 2

Adverb: by chance, accidentally, by accident; casually; perchance; (possibly); for aught one knows; as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it; as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may happen; as the case may be.

Crosswords: BY ACCIDENT

By accident (Vampires; writing credit: Don Jakoby)

Things don't just happen by accident! Sometimes people - mostly white people - make things happen! (Undercover Brother; writing credit: Eran Merav)

Just once, and it was purely by accident. The night my strap broke? (Where the Boys Are; writing credit: Glendon Swarthout; George Wells)

Maybe we'll meet some place by accident. (King Creole; writing credit: Harold Robbins; Herbert Baker)

Don't worry, guns don't just go off by accident. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Married by Accident (1917)

A Choice by Accident (1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Soldier*: (*Rifleman by Training, Clerk-Typist by Accident. in North Africa, Italy, and Austria) (reference)

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Pogo]. You goin' down after that li'l' ol' Pollywog boy I swallowed by accident. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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when I think it was by accident that I learned it all!

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Health

Many gallstones, especially silent stones, are discovered by accident during tests for other problems. (references)

High blood calcium, known as hypercalcemia, can exist for many years before it is found by accident or by family screening. (references)

Children

Liberia

Persons with Disabilities As a result of the civil war, a large number of persons have permanent disabilities, in addition to those disabled by accident or illness. (references)

Human Rights

Bolivia

On October 16, Nilda Escobar Aguilar was killed near Los Amigos, Central Isarzama in the Chapare, when she apparently was struck in the head by accident with a tear gas canister during a clash between demonstrators and security forces. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "BY ACCIDENT": offender by accident. Additional references.

Albanian

rastësisht (accidentally, at a venture, at times, by chance, casually, circumstantially, incidentally, overly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏بالإتفاق. (various references)

Bulgarian 

случайно (accidentally, at random, by chance, casually, circumstantially, fortuitously, happily, idly, incidentally, occasionally, on occasion, perchance, sporadically). (various references)

Chinese 

不�"意 (carelessly). (various references)

Czech

náhodnì (casually, fortuitously, haphazardly, incidentally). (various references)

Danish

tillfældigvis (by accidence, by chance). (various references)

Dutch

bý toeval (by chance), toevalligerwýze (by chance), toevallig (accidental, adventitious, by chance, chance, occasional, random). (various references)

Esperanto

hazarde (by chance). (various references)

Finnish

vahingossa (inadvertently, unawares), sattumalta (accidentally, by chance). (various references)

French

par hasard (by chance). (various references)

German

das Prinzip der verlustbehafteten Uebertragungsleitungen - leaky feeder principle - wurde durch Zufall entdeckt (the transmission liner or leaky feeder principle was first discovered by accident). (various references)

Greek 

τυχαιώσ (haply). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקרית (fortuitously), במקר�" (accidentally, by chance, hit or miss, incidentally). (various references)

Hungarian

véletlenül (accidentally, as it fall out, at a venture, at random, by chance, by coincidence, eventually, haphazard, haphazardly, haply, happily, incidentally, perchance). (various references)

Indonesian

kebetulan (accidental, by chance, casual, fit, happen to, incidental, ocassional). (various references)

Italian

a caso (by, by chance, haphazard). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

過って (by mistake, in error), 誤って (by mistake, in error), ちょび髭 (a topknot, at a glance, bits and pieces, dot, drop by drop, easy, flickering, fluttering, frizzily, in trickles, intermittently, point, short mustache, simple, small mustache, sparsely, to be dazzled, to flicker, to flit, to litter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あやまって (by mistake, in error), ちらっと (at a glance), ちらり (at a glance). (various references)

Papiamen

kasualmente (by chance), insidentalmente (by chance), aksidentalmente (by chance). (various references)

Pig Latin

ybay accidentay

Polish

przypadkiem (by chance). (various references)

Portuguese

poracaso, aoacaso, � toa. (various references)

Romanian

din întâmplare (by adventure, haply, occasionally, peradventure). (various references)

Russian 

нечаянно (unintentionally, unwittingly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

igrom slučaja (accident: by accident, come by chance). (various references)

Spanish

por suerte (by chance, luckily). (various references)

Swedish

tillfälligtvis (accidentally, by chance, incidentally), händelsevis (accidentally, as it happens, by chance), av en händelse. (various references)

Turkish

tesadüfen (accidentally, by chance, by coincidence, casually, causelessly, fortuitously, haply, in passing, incidentally), rastlantı sonucu (accidentally, fortuitous), kazara (accidentally, by chance, inadvertently). (various references)

Turkmen 

tцtдnden (casual). (various references)

Ukrainian

випадково (accidentally, adventitiously, by chance, casually, circumstantiality, fortuitously, haphazard, haphazardly, incidentally, occasionally, perchance, promiscuously), ненароком. (various references)

casualis. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: accident.

-3 letters: cabined, cabinet, cadency, cyanide, cyanite, edacity.

-4 letters: accent, acetic, acetin, baited, bandit, benday, binate, cadent, canted, cantic, centai, cyanic, cyanid, dainty, decant, detain, enatic, nicety.

-5 letters: abide, acidy, acned, acted, actin, anted, antic, bandy, baned, banty, bated, bayed, beady, bendy, bidet, cabin, cacti, cadet, candy, caned, canid, canty, cebid, ceiba, cited, cycad.