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chance on

/tʃɑːns ɒn/

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verb

/tʃɑːns ɒn/C1formal
  • ruФразовый глагол, используемый для обозначения неожиданной находки или встречи с чем-либо или кем-либо по воле случая или случайно.

A phrasal verb used to indicate unexpectedly finding or encountering something or someone by luck or accident.

uncountable · intransitive · phrasal, inseparable

  1. Find or meet by luckinformal

    To discover something or meet someone unexpectedly or by luck.

    ruСлучайно найти

    • I chanced on an old photograph in the attic.
    • She chanced on a rare book at the flea market.
    • He chanced on his former classmate while traveling abroad.

    Synonymsbump intocome acrossencounterhappen uponrun into

    Antonymsavoidseek

Forms
  • chanced on past participle
  • chanced on past simple
  • chancing on present participle
  • chances on third person singular

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Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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