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▸ noun: (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
▸ noun: (transport) A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
▸ noun: Any chance event.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Chance; random chance.
▸ noun: Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
▸ noun: (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
▸ noun: (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
▸ noun: Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
▸ noun: (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
▸ noun: (derogatory or humorous) A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
▸ noun: (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
▸ noun: (geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
▸ noun: (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
▸ adjective: (transport) Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
▸ noun: A town in Maryland, United States.
Similar:
fortuity,
chance event,
mishap,
accidental,
incident,
collision,
fatality,
crash,
accidence,
wreck,
more...
Opposite:
Types:
car accident,
plane crash,
train wreck,
boat accident,
bicycle accident,
motorcycle accident,
pedestrian accident,
airplane accident,
more...
Phrases:
Adjectives:
mere,
serious,
fatal,
historical,
unfortunate,
terrible,
happy,
tragic,
nuclear,
cerebrovascular,
pure
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