fatality
/feɪˈtæləti/
noun
- A death caused by an accident, disaster, or violence.
- The car crash resulted in three fatalities and several injuries.
- The disease has a high fatality rate among older patients.
- Officials reported no fatalities from the earthquake, though many buildings were damaged.
- The quality or state of being determined by fate; inevitability.
- There was a sense of fatality in the way the tragedy unfolded.
- She felt a strange fatality about their meeting, as if it was meant to happen.
- The ancient Greeks often wrote about the fatality of destiny in their plays.
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