Definition of fatality
fatalities
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Examples of fatality in a Sentence
The car crash caused one fatality and several serious injuries.
the grim reminder that every holiday weekend inevitably results in a slew of highway fatalities
Recent Examples of fatality from the Web
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This is reportedly the fifth fatality at Skydive DeLand in the past four years.
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Local media outlets are reporting one fatality in the crash.
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Last year, the child fatality panel listed 17 infant deaths linked to unsafe sleep, according to its annual report in 2016 for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2016.
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Seven children ages 5 and younger have been among the 328 fatalities, and at least two of the children were not restrained, Thornton said.
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Two fatalities were recorded, as well as more than 40 people injured.
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With collisions that result in a fatality or injury, the city ranked 35, and for ones where alcohol is involved, Glendale came in at 51.
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Louisville Metro Police are investigating a double shooting with two confirmed fatalities in the 2400 block of W. Jefferson Street.
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Men especially need to watch out during storms, more than 80 percent of lightning fatalities are men.
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Origin and Etymology of fatality
Middle French fatalité, from Late Latin fatalitat-, fatalitas, from Latin fatalis
FATALITY Defined for English Language Learners
fatality
playDefinition of fatality for English Language Learners
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: a death that results from a disaster, accident, etc.
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: a tendency to result in death
FATALITY Defined for Kids
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fatalities
: a death resulting from a disaster or accident
Medical Dictionary
fatality
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fatalities
1: the quality or state of causing death or destruction : deadliness the degree of fatality of a disease
2a: death resulting from a disaster a car crash causing several fatalitiesb: one who suffers such a death one of the fatalities was a small child
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