accident vs peril

accident

noun
  • An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans. 

  • Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive. 

  • A person born from an unintended pregnancy. 

  • A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes) 

  • A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case. 

  • An instance of incontinence. 

  • Chance; random chance. 

  • Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence. 

  • An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause. 

  • A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground. 

  • A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. 

  • An unintended pregnancy. 

  • Any chance event. 

  • casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation. 

adj
  • Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident. 

peril

noun
  • An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event. 

  • A situation of serious and immediate danger. 

  • Something that causes, contains, or presents danger. 

verb
  • To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk. 

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