Converse of object

• prevent: Put a lock on the toilet to prevent accidental drowning; toddlers can drown in a few inches of water.

• avoid: It is recommended that the battery is disconnected at all times to avoid any accidental starting of the car.

• remove: Also use this plug-in to apply or remove accidentals to every note within a selected region and remove ties in any selected region.

Adjective modifier

• cautionary: Editorial cautionary accidentals are given within round brackets; cautionary accidentals included in the source are reproduced without brackets.

• editorial: Editorial cautionary accidentals are given within round brackets; cautionary accidentals included in the source are reproduced without brackets.

Modifies a noun

• spillage: Protect work surfaces and your clothes in case of accidental spillage.

• overdose: A month later, he was found dead in a pub car-park following an accidental overdose of heroin.

• ingestion: Accidental ingestion of ant killers based on organic arsenic salts.

• poisoning: Accidental poisoning will not be caught by clause 7. 39.

• deletion: This somewhat tedious process guards against the accidental deletion of large numbers of records.

• damage: With accidental damage my call for or credit to.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: Is it all part of a divine plan, or is our being here a purely accidental assemblage of atoms?

• entirely: Whatever the nature of their recent battles, the incident was entirely accidental.

• merely: It is unlikely that such an alignment can have been merely accidental.

• almost: How it Began Discovery of the ROC post structure was almost accidental.

• apparently: It culminates in the apparently accidental death of the latter's baby son.

• completely: You couldn't invent a better one, even if this was completely accidental.

Noun used with modifier

• nothing: With respect to His prescience, there is nothing contingent; with respect to His providence, there is nothing accidental.

• means: This comparison is by no means accidental in character.

Used with adjective complement

• prevent: Always run cold water before the hot to prevent accidental scalding.