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fatality
[ fey-tal-i-tee, fuh- ]
noun
- a disaster resulting in death.
- a death resulting from such an occurrence:
a rise in highway fatalities.
- the quality of causing death or disaster; a fatal influence; deadliness.
- predetermined liability to disaster, misfortune, etc.:
a fatality for saying the wrong thing.
- the quality of being predetermined by or subject to fate:
There is a fatality in human affairs that leads to destruction.
- the fate or destiny of a person or thing:
Death is the ultimate fatality of all human beings.
- a fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things; inevitability:
to resign oneself to the fatality of life.
fatality
/ əˈæɪɪ /
noun
- an accident or disaster resulting in death
- a person killed in an accident or disaster
- the power of causing death or disaster; deadliness
- the quality or condition of being fated
- something caused or dictated by fate
Other Word Forms
- ԴDzЭ·ٲi·ٲ noun plural nonfatalities
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Police chief Kitrat Phanphet, who visited the scene alongside other officials, said initial investigations showed the plane was heading towards houses but its pilots managed to manoeuvre it towards the sea, avoiding any further fatalities.
In 2024, Fresno County recorded its first human rabies fatality in more than 30 years.
The reports focus on how some 3,000 names of people originally identified as fatalities were removed from later revised lists.
Still, it had an effect on the fighting, halving the number of fatalities among Ukrainian soldiers in the following year.
Steven Pearce, the CEO of Surf Live Saving in New South Wales, where most of the fatalities occurred, told the ABC it was the "worst" spate of drownings on record for the Easter long weekend.
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