(UK, _, law) An accidental death not caused by any violation of law or criminal negligence, but by a risk taken voluntarily.
(UK, _, law) An accidental death not caused by any violation of law or criminal negligence, but by a risk taken voluntarily.
8 July 1969¶ Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones drowned while ‘drunk and drugged’: coroner records death by misadventure. Mick Jagger pays poetic tribute in London’s Hyde Park.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
(countable) An instantaneous, unexpected death not caused by violence or trauma.
(proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
Happening by chance.
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A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.