Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A death resulting from an accident or a disaster: highway fatalities.
- n. One that is killed as a result of such an occurrence: The driver was one of the fatalities.
- n. The ability to cause death or disaster.
- n. The quality of being determined by fate.
- n. A decree made by fate; destiny.
- n. The quality of being doomed to disaster.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being fatal; fatalness: as, the fatality of an event.
- n. 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.
- n. Tendency to destruction or danger, or to some hazardous, critical, or fatal event; mortality; deadliness.
- n. A fatal occurrence: as, nothing could avert the fatality.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
- n. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortality.
- n. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
- n. A death.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
- n. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
- n. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
- n. the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
Examples
“When a traffic fatality is due to reckless driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, a manslaughter charge can be warranted”
“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.”
“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.”
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“Unless, of course, the next school fatality is a Jane Creba.”
“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”
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“The others detect damaged DNA, and generally convert near-certain fatality at a cost of increased errors.”
“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.”
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“The only fatality is what we desire; and more often, too, what we do not desire enough.”
“Frankenstein! what a singular fatality is attached to you with wealth and friends, doomed to be miserable!”
“Me, my dear? and do you think if some happy fatality is at work at this moment to force you to your good, I will come forth, like your evil genius, to counteract its operations?”
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