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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A death resulting from an accident or disaster.
  • noun One who is killed as a result of such an occurrence.
  • noun The ability to cause death or disaster.
  • noun The quality of being determined by fate.
  • noun A decree made by fate; destiny.
  • noun The quality of being doomed to disaster.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being fatal; fatalness: as, the fatality of an event.
  • noun A fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things, independent of any controlling cause; a doom which inevitably must be, whatever forces may oppose it; an invincible necessity existing in things themselves.
  • noun Tendency to destruction or danger, or to some hazardous, critical, or fatal event; mortality; deadliness.
  • noun A fatal occurrence: as, nothing could avert the fatality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
  • noun The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
  • noun That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
  • noun The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortality.
  • noun That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
  • noun A death.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
  • noun the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters

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