accident
/ˈaksɪd(ə)nt/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈaksɪd(ə)nt/
accident
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ac - ci - dent -> accident
Myanmar meaning
(n) မတော်တဆ ထိခိုက် (ဒဏ်ရာရ)မှု။ တိုက်ဆိုင်မှု။
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၁။ [C] မတော်တဆ ထိခိုက် (ဒဏ်ရာရ)မှု။ be killed in a car / road accident ❍ I had a slight accident at home and broke some glasses.
၂။ [C] တိုက်ဆိုင်မှု။ Their early arrival was just an accident. ❍ By accident of birth he is entitled to American citizenship.
❏ accident-prone adj ထိခိုက်မှု ဖြစ်တတ် [သော]။ She was the most accident-prone of the four children.
❏ accidents will happen [IDM ] (saying ) မတော်တဆ ထိခိုက်မှုဆိုတာ ရှိနေမှာပဲ။ အပေက္ခိ တန္တရာယဘူတာ။
❏ by accident [IDM ] မတော်တဆ။ I only-found out about it purely by accident.
More examples
- A fatal accident on the motorway between Paris and Lyons
- He was killed in a car accident.
- The accident was caused by ice on the road.
- Seven men were killed in a serious mining accident yesterday.
- A riding/climbing/hunting accident
- Don’t make such a fuss – it was an accident.
- To be honest, my second pregnancy was an accident.
- Children can have an accident at night sometimes.
Synonyms
mishap, misfortune, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, industrial accident, upset, mistake, adventure, blow, bump, casualty, chance, chance event, circumstance, coincidence, collision, contingency, crack-up, crash, fate, fender-bender, fluke, fortuity, fortune, happening, hazard, luck, misadventure, occasion, occurrence, pileup, rear ender, setback, shunt, smash, smashup, stack-up, total, turn, unexpected, wrack-up
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