fatality — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

   Synonyms

   inevitability

2. Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.

   Synonyms

   mortality

3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.

   Synonyms

   destinydoom

   Examples

   What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?

4. Death.

   Synonyms

   demisethe big sleep

5. An accident that causes death.

   Examples

   the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...

6. A person killed.

7. A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.

   Examples

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   My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.

Noun

1. a death resulting from an accident or a disaster

   Synonyms

   human death

   Broader terms

   deathdeceaseexpiry

   Examples

   a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities

2. the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters

   Broader terms

   deadlinesslethality