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noun
The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: inevitability, banker, cert, certainty, certitude, cinch, dead cert, fatality, racing certainty, sure thing, fair bet, good bet, safe bet, sure bet
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noun
Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: mortality
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noun
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: destiny, doom, chance, destin, fatality, fate, foredoom, foreordination, fortune, kismet, lot, orlay, portion, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar, weird, wyrd
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Death.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: demise, the big sleep, death, tomb, celestial transfer, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization, dirt nap, doom, exit, expiration, fatality, liquidation, mortality, passing, quietus, repose, sleep of the just, sunset, crash, downfall, fall, (the) bane, (the) end
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noun
An accident that causes death.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A person killed.
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noun
A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
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noun
the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: deadliness, lethality
noun
a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: human death
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: death, decease, expiry
Narrower terms: killing, violent death, fatal accident, casualty
History
From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity. The video game move sense was popularized by the Mortal Kombat series.
Across languages
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