fatality

CEFRC1

/feɪˈtælɪti/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A death caused by an accident, disease, or other event.
02
noun
Extra detail
Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
An accident that causes death.

In context

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.

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Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity. The video game move sense was popularized by the Mortal Kombat series.