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  • 111accident, mishap — An accident is an event that occurs without apparent plan. Such a chance, undesigned occurrence may be fortunate (a lucky accident that we saw each other), unfortunate (a fatal accident), or neutral (the accident of birth). A mishap is an… …

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  • 112accident — Synonyms and related words: accessary, accessory, accidental, addendum, addition, adjunct, adventure, appendage, appurtenance, auxiliary, blow, blunder, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, chance, chance hit, collateral, collision, coming …

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  • 113affliction — Synonyms and related words: abnormality, acute disease, adverse circumstances, adversity, affection, aggravation, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, anguish, annoyance, atrophy, bacterial disease, bane, birth defect, bitter cup, bitter draft,… …

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  • 114blow — Synonyms and related words: Barnumize, Lucullan feast, accident, accomplished fact, accomplishment, ache, achievement, aching, act, acta, action, adventure, amplify, anthesis, astonishment, bafflement, bagpipe, balk, bang, banquet, bash,… …

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  • 115calamity — Synonyms and related words: accident, adversity, affliction, bane, blow, bugbear, burden, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, contretemps, crack up, crash, cross, crushing burden, curse, death, desolation, destruction,… …

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  • 116casualty — Synonyms and related words: accident, adventure, blow, body count, calamity, casualties, cataclysm, catastrophe, chance hit, collision, contingency, contingent, contretemps, crack up, crash, dead, death, disaster, fatal, fatal accident,… …

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  • 117cataclysm — Synonyms and related words: accident, alluvion, alluvium, apoplexy, bloodless revolution, blow, bouleversement, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, calamity, casualty, cataract, catastrophe, cave, cave in, clean slate, clean sweep, climax, collapse …

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  • 118catastrophe — Synonyms and related words: Z, accident, action, anagnorisis, angle, apodosis, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, bad luck, bitter end, bloodless revolution, blow, bouleversement, breakdown, breaking up, breakup,… …

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  • 119collision — Synonyms and related words: accident, antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, appulse, backlash, bad blood, belligerence, blow, brunt, bulldozing, bulling, bump, calamity, cannon, carambole, carom, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, clash, clashing,… …

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  • 120crack up — Synonyms and related words: ablate, accident, appulse, atomize, bang, bang into, bankruptcy, blow, brain disease, break down, break up, breakage, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, brunt, bulldozing, bulling, bump, bump into, burn out, calamity,… …

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