0 present participle of chance
1 to risk something:
2 to happen or do something by chance:
[ + to infinitive ] They chanced to be in the restaurant when I arrived.
I chanced on/upon (= found unexpectedly) some old love letters in a drawer.
Ten years after leaving school, we chanced on/upon (= unexpectedly met) each other in Regent Street.
After wasting much time going from one place to another, in hopes of chancing upon the recluse, we did indeed find him.
Subjecting her belief to critical scrutiny enhances a person's chances of achieving truth rather than chancing error.
Chancing one's luck is in the nature of mankind.
This is an experiment and it would be chancing our arm to go further.
They are doing what they would call "chancing their arm," but chancing their arm is chancing other people's lives, and that is what matters.
He was chancing his arm slightly by using clever wordplay on "creche"and"crash".
Real interest rates in this country remain so high that only the boldest spirits would dream of chancing their arm with massive investment.
It needs only a minute proportion of people to do this to put on the spot shopkeepers who may be chancing their luck.
