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fatality

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fa·tal·i·ty  (f-tl-t, f-)
n. pl. fa·tal·i·ties
1.
a. A death resulting from an accident or a disaster: highway fatalities.
b. One that is killed as a result of such an occurrence: The driver was one of the fatalities.
2. The ability to cause death or disaster.
3. The quality of being determined by fate.
4. A decree made by fate; destiny.
5. The quality of being doomed to disaster.

fatality [fəˈtælɪtɪ]
n pl -ties
1. an accident or disaster resulting in death
2. a person killed in an accident or disaster
3. the power of causing death or disaster; deadliness
4. the quality or condition of being fated
5. something caused or dictated by fate
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.fatalityfatality - a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"
death, decease, expiry - the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"
killing, violent death - an event that causes someone to die
fatal accident, casualty - an accident that causes someone to die
2.fatality - the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
deadliness, lethality - the quality of being deadly

fatality
noun casualty, death, loss, victim the first fatality since the ceasefire began
Translations
fatality [fəˈtælɪtɪ] N
1. (= death) → muerte f
2. (= victim) → muerto/a m/f, víctima f
luckily there were no fatalitiespor fortuna no hubo víctimas
fatality [fəˈtælɪti] n (= death) (caused by accident or violence)décès m (= victim) → victime f
fatality
n
Todesfall m; (in accident, war etc) → (Todes)opfer nt; there were no fatalitieses gab keine Todesopfer
(liter: = inevitability) → Unabwendbarkeit f
fatality [fəˈtælɪtɪ] n (death) → incidente m mortale; (person killed) → morto/a, vittima
fatality [fəˈtælɪtɪ] n (death) → incidente m mortale; (person killed) → morto/a, vittima


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It is my conviction, or my delusion, no matter which, that crime brings its own fatality with it.
Separated forever from the world, by the double fatality of his unknown birth and his natural deformity, imprisoned from his infancy in that impassable double circle, the poor wretch had grown used to seeing nothing in this world beyond the religious walls which had received him under their shadow.
Gentlemen, a strange fatality pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out before the world itself was charted.
 
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