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A death resulting from an accident or a disaster
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fatality
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. 2 Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. 3 That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. ...
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A Fatality is a gameplay feature in the Mortal Kombat series of fighting video games . It is a finishing move in which the victor of the final round in a match inflicts a brutal and morbid execution on their defeated opponent. Fatalities are performed after ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "quality of causing death," from French fatalité , from Late Latin fatalitatem (nominative fatalitas ) "fatal necessity, fatality," from Latin fatalis "ordained by fate; destructive, deadly" (see fatal ). Senses in 16c.-17c. included "determined ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN rate ▪ Severe deliriumtremens has a fatality rate of 20%, higher than any drug except the barbiturates. ▪ According to the National Fire Protection Association, we have the highest fatality rate from fire in the industrial ...
WordNet
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n. a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" [syn: human death ] the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
Usage examples of fatality.
Although Sapor was in the thirtieth year of his long reign, he was still in the vigor of youth, as the date of his accession, by a very strange fatality, had preceded that of his birth.
They all of them watched the guard bugler depart, watching him inexpressively, looking at him inarticulately, seeing in him this fatality of which they were aware but powerless to influence, this that was more than men, an irresistible cosmic force of some kind that defied isolation.
Nietzschean asceticism, which begins with the recognition of fatality, ends in a deification of fate.
Wrestling and the roller-derby as blood sports, the routinization of femicide in the detective tale, the standardization at one million per year of traffic fatalities, the wholesome interest of our youth in gang rumbles, all point toward the Age of Hate and Death.
Wrestling and the roller-derby as blood sports, the rou-tinization of femicide in the detective tale, the standardization at one million per year of traffic fatalities, the wholesome interest of our youth in gang rumbles, all point toward the Age of Hate and Death.
He had a right to be told, as he had done all in his power to insure the success of a project which had only failed by an unexampled fatality.
Again that driving fatality tugged insistently at my brain as I recalled the awesome records that once lay cased in those rectangular vaults of rustless metal.
While they argued over details Kovac had wrestled with again and again, he flipped through the books Quinn had brought out: The DSM-IV, Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life, The Handbook of Forensic Sexology, Autoerotic Fatalities.
And as her mind reviewed the past she shuddered, as the peasants at Sairmeuse had done, when she thought of the fatality which had pursued the shedders of innocent blood.
Unhappily, the baronet, who by some fatality never could see when he was winning the battle, thought proper in his wisdom to water the dryness of his sermon with a little jocoseness, on the subject of young men fancying themselves in love, and, when they were raw and green, absolutely wanting to be--that most awful thing, which the wisest and strongest of men undertake in hesitation and after self-mortification and penance-- married!
I recalled, before there was any actual fatality, the National Astral Spellcraft Administration had grown smart for the nonce and consulted the local Indians.
Rodolphe, who had managed the fatality, thought the remark very offhand from a man in his position, comic even, and a little mean.
Russia is forced on by fatality: She cries her destiny must be outwrought, Meaning at our expense.
But this present, mysterious epidemic had a much higher fatality rate than the polio of old.
Maltravers, from that fatality which undoubtedly regulates and controls us, at last accepted the proffered distinction.