Crossword-Solution: ACCIDENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Accident | n. | Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. |
| Accident | n. | A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case. |
| Accident | n. | A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. |
| Accident | n. | A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute. |
| Accident | n. | A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness. |
| Accident | n. | Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. |
| Accident | n. | Unusual appearance or effect. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ACCIDENT (5)
When she stole softly to the edge of the lagoon she might see them by the score, especially on Marooners’ Rock, where they loved to bask, combing out their hair in a lazy way that quite irritated her; or she might even swim, on tiptoe as it were, to within a yard of them, but then they saw her and dived, probably splashing her with their tails, not by accident, but intentionally.
His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack.
Whilst I was saddened by the thought of losing the aid of my kind mistress, I was gladdened by the invaluable instruction which, by the merest accident, I had gained from my master.
Flourishing his finger ominously he threw a gaze teeming with tidings just where his glance alighted by accident, which happened to be in Joseph Poorgrass’s face.
The Man and the Serpent A Countryman’s son by accident trod upon a Serpent’s tail, which turned and bit him so that he died.
Quotes with ACCIDENT (3)
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagini…
Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1958–2023).