Translations for „accident“ in the English » Portuguese Dictionary

accident [ˈæksɪdənt] N

accident

acidente m

by accident (not on purpose)

sem querer

by accident (by chance)

por acaso

Usage examples with accident

by accident (not on purpose)

sem querer

to meet with an accident

sofrer um acidente

the accident left him severely disabled

o acidente o deixou severamente incapacitado

the cause of the accident was ...

a causa do acidente foi ...

they had an accident and couldn't go on

eles sofreram um acidente e não puderam seguir em frente

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The fiction was the allegation that the finding in trover was an accident.

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Investigations were conducted the same day, concluding that the accident was not caused by deficiencies in the track.

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With the Nigerien government counting 18949 km of roads in the nation, this comes to one accident for every five kilometers in 2008.

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The truck driver was reportedly running the vehicle recklessly and talking over a mobile phone just before the accident.

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Most short-term insurance is indemnity insurance, but short-term insurance is not restricted to indemnity insurance, since an accident and health policy belongs to the class of capital insurance.

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A first-calver that meets an unfortunate accident may be fully depreciated with $0 salvage value at age two.

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He was left immobilized for eight weeks after the accident and never fully recovered from it.

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He had been in critical condition since he was injured in an automobile accident on Thanksgiving Day.

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A knuckle on the front end of the seventy-fifth car was broken when the accident occurred.

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Later, the police officers get a call to a fatality in a road accident in which speed was the major factor.

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