Dictionary entry

By accident

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Myanmar Meaning

(idm) မတော်တဆ။

Definition

accident / 'æksÇdǝnt / n ၁။ [C] မေတာ္တဆ ထိခိုက္ (ဒဏ္ရာရ)မႈ။ be killed in a car / road accident ❍ I had a slight accident at home and broke some glasses. ၂။ [C] တိုက္ဆိုင္မႈ။ Their early arrival was just an accident. ❍ By accident of birth he is entitled to American citizenship. ❏ accident-prone adj ထိခိုက္မႈ ျဖစ္တတ္ [ေသာ]။ She was the most accident-prone of the four children. ❏ accidents will happen [ IDM ] ( saying ) မေတာ္တဆ ထိခိုက္မႈဆိုတာ ရိွေနမွာပဲ။ အေပကၡိ တႏၲရာယဘူတာ။ ❏ by accident [ IDM ] မေတာ္တဆ။ I only-found out about it purely by accident.

Examples

  1. A fatal accident on the motorway between Paris and Lyons
  2. He was killed in a car accident.
  3. The accident was caused by ice on the road.
  4. Seven men were killed in a serious mining accident yesterday.
  5. A riding/climbing/hunting accident
  6. Don’t make such a fuss – it was an accident.
  7. To be honest
  8. my second pregnancy was an accident.
  9. Children can have an accident at night sometimes.