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  1. 1. n. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. a death resulting from an accident or a disaster Source: wordnet
  5. 5. n. the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters Source: wordnet
  6. 6. 1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike. 3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden. Source: webster
  7. 7. n:100 n. a death resulting from an accident or a disaster n. the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters Source: ecdict

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