English-Portuguese translations for by accident

• por acaso
  Se queremos, ela não vai acontecer por acaso. If we do, it will not happen by accident.
  A sua universalidade não aconteceu por acaso. Their universality has not come about by accident.
  Não foi por acaso que passámos cinco anos juntos. It was not by accident that we spent five years together.

Definition of by accident

• Accidentally; unintentionally; without meaning to; as the result of an event not expected, aided, or designed by one's will
• As the result of some undesigned, unintended, unrelated, natural, or random occurrence; as the unexpected and unforeseen result of formerly unrelated factors
• By chance; unexpectedly; as the result of an unrelated series of events
• Accidental; as the result of some unforeseen happening or series of events; unexpected; resulting from an event without the foresight, expectation, aid, or design of the person by whose agency it was caused; unintentional

Examples

• Sorry. I knocked over the vase by accident.
• The car got totaled by accident; a giant snowdrift fell off the church roof.
• The only way that project still exists today is by accident; I thought we closed it years ago.
• The scholar thinks the quote and the parable were spoken on different occasions and only by accident were brought together here.
• I hadnt seen her for years, but I ran into her by accident at the store.
• She overheard the information by accident.
• The victims death was by accident
• That the injury was by accident is not questioned

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