accident: translation
noun
1 unexpected event that causes damage/injury
ADJECTIVE
▪ bad, dreadful (esp. BrE), horrible, horrific (esp. BrE), major, nasty, serious, terrible, tragic, unfortunate
▪ deadly (AmE), fatal
▪ minor, slight, small
▪ bizarre, freak
▪ Their boat sank in a freak accident.
▪ hit-and-run
▪ industrial, nuclear
▪ auto (AmE), automobile (AmE), bike, car, highway (AmE), motor (BrE), motorbike (BrE), motorcycle, motor-vehicle, road, traffic
▪ The woman was involved in a road traffic accident.(BrE)
▪ aircraft, airplane (AmE), plane (esp. AmE)
▪ boating, climbing, hunting, riding, skiing
VERB + ACCIDENT
▪ be involved in, have, meet with (BrE), suffer
▪ She met with an accident while skiing in Colorado.
▪ cause
▪ avoid, prevent
▪ survive
▪ recover from
ACCIDENT + VERB
▪ happen, occur, take place
ACCIDENT + NOUN
▪ black spot (BrE)
▪ victim
▪ prevention
▪ investigation, report
▪ rate, statistics
PREPOSITION
▪ in an/the accident
PHRASES
▪ an accident involving
▪ He was badly hurt in an accident involving two cars and a van.
▪ an accident waiting to happen (= a situation which is likely to become dangerous)
▪ the scene of the accident
▪ The ambulance took only six minutes to reach the scene of the accident.
2 sth not planned in advance
ADJECTIVE
▪ mere, pure, sheer
▪ By pure accident he had come across the very man who could solve the mystery.
▪ happy
▪ historical
PREPOSITION
▪ by accident
▪ We met by accident at the airport.
PHRASES
▪ an accident of birth (esp. BrE)
▪ an accident of history
▪ It's just an accident of history that the city became part of the Soviet Union.
▪ be no accident that …
▪ It is no accident that men fill most of the top jobs.
▪ by accident or design
▪ It happened, whether by accident or design, that Steve and I were the last two people to leave.