noun (plural fatalities)
1 [C] a death that is caused in an accident or a war or by some other act of violence:
Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. * a campaign to reduce the number of fatalities on the roads
2 [U] the fact that a particular disease will result in death:
to reduce the fatality of certain types of cancer * Different forms of cancer have different fatality rates.
3 [U] the belief or feeling that we have no control over what happens to us:
A sense of fatality gripped her.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fatality is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does fatality appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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