fatality

Plural: fatalities

Noun

• A death resulting from an accident or disaster.
• a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
• the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
• The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
• Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
• That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
• Death.
• An accident that causes death.
• A person killed.
• A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.

Examples

• The FATALITY of his blunder was clear when his opponent immediately capitalized on it.

Synonyms

human death, (the) bane, (the) end, banker, celestial transfer, cert, certainty, certitude, chance, cinch, crash, dead cert, death, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization, demise, destin, destiny, dirt nap, doom, downfall, exit, expiration, fair bet, fall, fatality, fate, foredoom, foreordination, fortune, good bet, inevitability, kismet, liquidation, lot, mortality, orlay, portion, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar, quietus, racing certainty, repose, safe bet, sleep of the just, sunset, sure bet, sure thing, the big sleep, weird, wyrd