chance

IPA(Pronunciation)

/t͡ʃæns/

Verb

archaic intransitive transitive Belize

(archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur. / (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to. / To try or risk. / To discover something by chance. / (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.

Japanese Meaning

偶然に起こる、発生する / 偶然に（何かが）降りかかる、起こりうる / 試みる、危険を冒す / 偶然に発見する / （Belize方言）騙す、詐欺にかける、だます

What is this buttons?

On foggy mornings, misadventures often chance more than we admit.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

霧の立ちこめる朝には、思いがけない災難が私たちが認めるよりもよく起こる。

Details

Sense（1）

(archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.

It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.

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Sense（2）

(archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.

[…] while the King and Godwine sate at the table, accompanied with others of the nobilitie, it chanced the cupbearer (as he brought wine to the bourd) to slip with the one foote, and yet by good strength of his other leg, to recover himselfe without falling […]

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