fatalities

Noun

fatality (plural fatalities)

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

   Synonyms:

   inevitability, banker, cert, certainty, certitude, cinch, dead cert, racing certainty, sure thing, fair bet

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.
   • What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?1851, Wilkie Collins, The Twin Sisters

   Synonyms:

   destiny, doom, chance, destin, fate, foredoom, foreordination, fortune, kismet, lot

4. Death.

   Synonyms:

   demise, the big sleep, death, end, tomb, celestial transfer, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization

5. An accident that causes death.
   • 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...2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 13
6. A person killed.

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