Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to chance
Participle: chanced
Gerund: chancing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | chance |
| you | chance |
| he;she;it | chances |
| we | chance |
| you | chance |
| they | chance |
Perfect
| I | have chanced |
| you | have chanced |
| he;she;it | has chanced |
| we | have chanced |
| you | have chanced |
| they | have chanced |
Past
| I | chanced |
| you | chanced |
| he;she;it | chanced |
| we | chanced |
| you | chanced |
| they | chanced |
Pluperfect
| I | had chanced |
| you | had chanced |
| he;she;it | had chanced |
| we | had chanced |
| you | had chanced |
| they | had chanced |
Future
| I | will chance |
| you | will chance |
| he;she;it | will chance |
| we | will chance |
| you | will chance |
| they | will chance |
Future Perfect
| I | will have chanced |
| you | will have chanced |
| he;she;it | will have chanced |
| we | will have chanced |
| you | will have chanced |
| they | will have chanced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | chance |
| you | chance |
| he;she;it | chance |
| we | chance |
| you | chance |
| they | chance |
Perfect
| I | have chanced |
| you | have chanced |
| he;she;it | have chanced |
| we | have chanced |
| you | have chanced |
| they | have chanced |
Imperfect
| I | chanced |
| you | chanced |
| he;she;it | chanced |
| we | chanced |
| you | chanced |
| they | chanced |
Pluperfect
| I | had chanced |
| you | had chanced |
| he;she;it | had chanced |
| we | had chanced |
| you | had chanced |
| they | had chanced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would chance |
| you | would chance |
| he;she;it | would chance |
| we | would chance |
| you | would chance |
| they | would chance |
Perfect
| I | would have chanced |
| you | would have chanced |
| he;she;it | would have chanced |
| we | would have chanced |
| you | would have chanced |
| they | would have chanced |
Imperative
| you | chance |
| we | Let's chance |
| you | chance |
Verbs conjugated like 'chance'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'chance'
chace,
change,
chaunce,
hance,
bechance,
cancel,
cane,
canoe,
chack,
chafe,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to exist; to be a reality
- bechance, befall, belimp, betide, betime, come about, come to pass, crop up, evene, eventuate, go on, hap, happen, hold, occur, pass, take place, transpire
- occur
- arrive, befall, happen
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1297, from O.Fr. cheance "accident, the falling of dice," from V.L. cadentia "that which falls out," from L. cadentem (nom. cadens), prp. of cadere "to fall" (see case (1)). Notions of "opportunity" and "randomness" are equally old in Eng. The verb meaning "to risk" is from 1859. Chancy was originally (1513) "lucky;" sense of "risky, untrustworthy" is first recorded 1860.
2. From Middle English chancen, chauncen, from the noun (see above).
Sample Sentences
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[...] is so little elevated above, or put aloof from, the crowd in the court, that a stranger entering during a pause in the proceedings would find it difficult to pick him out from the rest. And if it chanced to be a criminal trial, his eyes, in nine cases out of ten, would wander to the dock in search of the prisoner, in vain; for that gentleman would most likely be lounging among the most distinguished [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] or whatever he may be, wears no uniform. He walks up and down the car, and in and out of it, as his fancy dictates; leans against the door with his hands in his pockets and stares at you, if you chance to be a stranger; or enters into conversation with the passengers about him. A great many newspapers are pulled out, and a few of them are read. Everybody talks to you, or to anybody else who hits [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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She was many miles past any neighborhood where she was personally known. If she should chance to meet any who knew her, she reflected that the well-known kindness of the family would be of itself a blind to suspicion, as making it an unlikely supposition that she could be a fugitive. As she [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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He was digging here, one summer day, very industriously, when the wicket in the outer gate chanced to be left open: showing, beyond, the well-remembered dusty road and sunburnt fields. The way was as free to him as to any man living, but he no sooner raised his head and caught sight of it, all [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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There chanced to be on board this boat, in addition to the usual dreary crowd of passengers, one Pitchlynn, a chief of the Choctaw tribe of Indians, who sent in his card to me, and with whom I had the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)