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Meaning of Fatality | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
feɪˈtælɪti

Definitions

  1. The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
  2. Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
  3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
  4. Death.
  5. An accident that causes death.
  6. A person killed.
  7. A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.

Equivalents

العربية الضحيّة شؤم
Български съдба участ
Gaeilge cinniúint
Bahasa Indonesia fatalitas
日本語 死亡事故
Српски sudbina судбина
Svenska dödsolycka
Türkçe maktul

Examples

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

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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