Collocations for "accident"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "accident" in context.
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accident
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [fatal, tragic, serious, bad, happy] accident
- [traffic, gun, bike, work] accident
- [killed, died] in an accident
- [suffered, survived, caused] an accident
- just had an accident [on the road, at home]
- had an accident [at school, in the car]
- (it) was [only, just] an accident
- it was an accident, I promise!
- it was not an accident that [we met, I ran into you]
- there was an accident [at the power plant, on the highway]
- there's been [an, a terrible] accident!
- [fell, forgot, told you] by accident
- an accident of [history, nature, fate]
- [compensation, insurance] for the accident
- accident [protection, lawyer, insurance]
- is [very, extremely] accident prone
'accident' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
aching
- almost
- ambition
- appalling
- apparently
- arm
- avoid
- awful
- backbone
- bad
- badly
- bear
- bicycle
- bike
- bizarre
- blackout
- blame
- bleed
- blind
- block
- bone
- burn
- cabbage
- career
- casual
- casualty
- cause
- closure
- concussion
- conscious
- consequence
- cop
- count
- counter
- cripple
- crippled
- critical
- crooked
- crowd
- damage
- daze
- dazed
- deaf
- defect
- defend
- description
- detail
- development
- disability
- disable