have an accident
Definition
› to urinate or excrete (= pass solid waste) when you do not intend to: Even a six-year-old can have an accident at night sometimes.Excrement and its excretionUrine and urinatingBodily fluids and their production
(Definition of have an accident from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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