Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A death resulting from an accident or disaster.
- noun One who is killed as a result of such an occurrence.
- noun The ability to cause death or disaster.
- noun The quality of being determined by fate.
- noun A decree made by fate; destiny.
- noun The quality of being doomed to disaster.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being fatal; fatalness: as, the fatality of an event.
- noun A fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things, independent of any controlling cause; a doom which inevitably must be, whatever forces may oppose it; an invincible necessity existing in things themselves.
- noun Tendency to destruction or danger, or to some hazardous, critical, or fatal event; mortality; deadliness.
- noun A fatal occurrence: as, nothing could avert the fatality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
- noun The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
- noun That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
fatal , or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. - noun The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate;
mortality . - noun That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
- noun A
death .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
- noun the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
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Examples
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When a traffic fatality is due to reckless driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, a manslaughter charge can be warranted
Man charged after deadly Va. crash Washington Post Editors 2010
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The fact that the Tomlinson fatality is such a rarity, only demonstrates how professional a job the police do in protecting life and preserving property.
Police Officer Seriously Injured « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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But for accidents involving radiation, there were something like 200 entries per year, in spite of there not having been a single fatality from a radiation accident for over a decade.
Do Not Read This If You Are Anti-Nuclear Energy - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Unless, of course, the next school fatality is a Jane Creba.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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But for accidents involving radiation, there were something like 200 entries per year, in spite of there not having been a single fatality from a radiation accident for over a decade.
Do Not Read This If You Are Anti-Nuclear Energy - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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My Favorite fatality is all the babyalitys because i once pulled it on a kid in an arcade and he laughed so hard he droped his pepsi all over his pants and it looked like he pissed him self XD
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Every fatality in Mortal Kombat 2006
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The others detect damaged DNA, and generally convert near-certain fatality at a cost of increased errors.
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According to doping historian and physician Gary Wadler, the first documented fatality from a performance-enhancing drug came in 1886, when an English cyclist died from an overdose of "trimethyl" in a French race.
USATODAY.com - Tackling longtime issue of drugs No. 2 on sports changes wish list 2004
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The only fatality is what we desire; and more often, too, what we do not desire enough.
Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women Charles Kay 1915
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Frankenstein! what a singular fatality is attached to you with wealth and friends, doomed to be miserable!
Act III 1823
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