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Verb1.chance on - find unexpectedlychance on - find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"
chance upon, come across, come upon, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, attain, discover, strike
regain, find - come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"
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chance

noun
1. The quality shared by random, unintended, or unpredictable events or this quality regarded as the cause of such events:
fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, hap, hazard, luck.
2. The likeliness of a given event occurring:
likelihood, odds, possibility, probability, prospect (used in plural).
3. An unexpected random event:
accident, fluke, fortuity, hap, happenchance, happenstance, hazard.
4. A favorable or advantageous combination of circumstances:
break, occasion, opening, opportunity.
Informal: shot.
5. A possibility of danger or harm:
gamble, hazard, risk.
verb
1. To take place by chance:
befall, hap, happen.
2. To run the risk of:
adventure, hazard, risk, venture.
phrasal verb
chance on or upon
To find or meet by chance:
bump into, come across, come on (or upon), find, happen on (or upon), light on (or upon), run across, run into, stumble on (or upon), tumble on.
Archaic: alight on (or upon).
Idiom: meet up with.
adjective
1. Occurring unexpectedly:
accidental, casual, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, inadvertent, odd.
2. Having no particular pattern, purpose, organization, or structure:
desultory, haphazard, hit-or-miss, indiscriminate, random, spot, unplanned.
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Translations
náhodou objevitnáhodou potkatnarazit na
falde overmøde tilfældigt
belebotlik vkibe
rekast á af tilviljunuppgötva óvænt
tesadüfen keşfetmek/bulmaktesadüfen rastlamak

w>chance (up)on

vi +prep obj person → zufällig begegnen (+dat), → zufällig treffen; thing → zufällig stoßen auf (+acc)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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