fatality

fatality
I noun accidental death, calamity, casualty, casus, cataclysm, catastrophe, deadliness, deadly accident, death, death by accident, destruction, disaster, downfall, fatal accident, fatal casualty, fatal mishap, lethality, liability to disaster, malignance, malignancy, malignity, mischance, misfortune, mortality, perniciousness, ruin, subjection to fate, sudden death, tragedy, violent death, virulence, virulency II index dead, death, mortality

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  • Fatality — (рус. Смерть, Рок)  особый приём в серии файтингов Mortal Kombat, имеется только в играх этой серии (хотя похожая схема используется в Killer Instinct), что отличает её от остальных файтингов того и этого времени …   Википедия

  • Fatality — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Fatality es un personaje ficticio del universo de DC Comics creado por el escritor Ron Marz y el artista Darryl Banks. En Green Lantern (vol. 3) N° 82 (enero de 1997) se vio su sombra cuando asesina a Galius Zed, un… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Fatality — Fa*tal i*ty, n.;pl. {Fatalities}. [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalit[ e]] 1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [1913 Webster] The Stoics held a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fatality — may refer to:* Death * Fatalism * A fatal error, in computing * Fatality ( Mortal Kombat ), a finishing move in the Mortal Kombat series of versus fighting games * Fatal1ty, the pseudonym of Johnathan Wendel, a professional electronic sports… …   Wikipedia

  • fatality — [fā tal′ə tē, fətal′ə tē] n. pl. fatalities [Fr fatalité < LL fatalitas < L fatalis, FATAL] 1. fate or necessity; subjection to fate 2. something caused by fate 3. a strong likelihood of ending in disaster 4. a fatal quality; deadly effect; …   English World dictionary

  • fatality — late 15c., quality of causing death, from Fr. fatalité, from L.L. fatalitatem (nom. fatalitas), from L. fatalis (see FATAL (Cf. fatal)). Senses in 16c. 17c. included determined by fate and a destiny. Meaning an occurrence resulting in widespread… …   Etymology dictionary

  • fatality — [n] death, loss; ability to cause such accident, casualty, deadliness, destructiveness, disaster, dying, inevitability, lethality, lethalness, mortality, necrosis, noxiousness, poisonousness, virulence; concepts 304,675 Ant. birth …   New thesaurus

  • fatality — ► NOUN (pl. fatalities) 1) an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease. 2) helplessness in the face of fate …   English terms dictionary

  • fatality — /fay tal i tee, feuh /, n., pl. fatalities. 1. a disaster resulting in death. 2. a death resulting from such an occurrence: a rise in highway fatalities. 3. the quality of causing death or disaster; a fatal influence; deadliness. 4. predetermined …   Universalium

  • fatality — UK [fəˈtælətɪ] / US noun Word forms fatality : singular fatality plural fatalities 1) [countable] formal a death caused by an accident, war, violence, or disease As well as the 13 fatalities, 17 people were injured. 2) [uncountable] the feeling… …   English dictionary

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