fatality

//fəˈtæl.ɪ.ti//
C1Frequency Level 11Formal
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Noun

fatalitySingular
fatalitiesPlural
1

A death resulting from an accident, disaster, war, or other unfortunate event.

The car accident resulted in three fatalities.

2

The quality or condition of being destined to disaster or death; inevitability of fate.

There was a sense of fatality about the expedition, as if disaster was inevitable.

3

The ability to cause death or destruction; deadliness.

Scientists studied the fatality of the new virus strain.

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