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chanced [chans, chahns]
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chance [chans, chahns]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: risk, endanger
Synonyms: attempt, cast lots, draw lots, gamble, go out on a limb, have a fling at, hazard, jeopardize, play with fire, plunge, put eggs in one basket, put it on the line, roll the dice, run the risk, skate on thin ice, speculate, stake, stick one's neck out, take shot in the dark, tempt fate, tempt fortune, toss up, try, venture, wager, wildcat
Antonyms: aim, design, plan, scheme, understand
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Absence of purpose in the succession of events] Chance.
Category: 1. Conceptional Volition
Synonyms:
-nouns
chance; lot, fate (necessity); luck; good luck (good); mascot., speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot; blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke (uncertainty); fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer; limit., drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo [U.S.], craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or talls, cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf., gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box; dicer; gambler, gamester; man of the turf; adventurer.
-verbs
chance (hap); stand a chance (be possible)., toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt fortune; chance it, take one's chance; run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die., speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery, buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards., risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet, wager, bet, gamble, game, play for; play at chuck farthing.
-adjectives
fortuitous; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not meant; undesigned, purposed; unpremeditated; unforeseen, never thought of., indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected, random; aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless; without purpose., possible.
-adverbs
casually; unintentionally; unwittingly., en passant, by the way, incidentally; as it may happen; at random, at a venture, at haphazard.
-phrases
acierta errando; dextro tempore; "fearful concatenation of circumstances" [D. Webster]; "fortuitous combination of circumstances" [Dickens]; le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoic; "the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances" [Scott]; "the fortuitous or casual concourse of
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Main Entry: befall
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: happen to; take place
Synonyms: action, bechance, betide, break, chance, come down, come off, come to pass, cook up a storm, cook with gas, cook*, develop, ensue, fall, fall out, follow, gel, go, go down, hap, happen, jell, materialize, occur, shake*, smoke*, supervene, transpire
Main Entry: bet
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gamble
Synonyms: ante, buy in on, chance, dice, game, hazard, lay down, lay odds, play against, play for, play the ponies, pledge, pony up, put, put money on, risk, set, speculate, tempt fortune, toss up, trust, venture, wager
Main Entry: break
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: emerge, happen
Synonyms: appear, befall, betide, burst out, chance, come forth, come off, come to pass, develop, erupt, go, occur, transpire
Notes: to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack
Main Entry: come
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: happen
Synonyms: befall, betide, break, chance, come to pass, develop, fall, hap, occur, take place, transpire, turn out
Main Entry: come off
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: transpire
Synonyms: befall, betide, break, chance, click, come about, develop, go, go off, go over, hap, happen, occur, pan out, prove out, succeed, take place
Antonyms: not happen
Main Entry: come upon
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: happen upon
Synonyms: bump into, chance, come across, encounter, meet
Main Entry: develop
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: begin; occur
Synonyms: acquire, arise, befall, betide, break, break out, breed, chance, come about, come off, commence, contract, ensue, establish, follow, form, generate, go, happen, invest, originate, pick up, result, start, transpire
Antonyms: cease, discontinue, end, halt, stop
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