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fatality

/fey-tal-i-tee, fuh-/US // feɪˈtæl ɪ ti, fə- //UK // (fəˈtælɪtɪ) //

致命,遇难者,死亡,遇难

Related Words

accident事故,意外事故,意外,意外事件mortality死亡率,死亡人数,死亡,死亡率问题casualty伤员,伤亡人员,伤者,伤亡者disaster灾难,灾害,灾祸,灾情dying奄奄一息,垂死挣扎,垂死的,奄奄一息的deadliness死气沉沉,致命性,致死率,死性virulence致病性,致病力,毒性,毒力lethality致命性,致死率,致死性,杀伤力inevitability必然性,不可避免地,不可避免的,不可避免necrosis坏死,坏疽destructiveness破坏力,破坏性,毁坏性,毁坏力noxiousness毒性,恶性,毒害性,恶毒poisonousness毒性,毒害性,毒害,毒物

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fa·tal·i·ties.

    • : a disaster resulting in death.
    • : a death resulting from such an occurrence: a rise in highway fatalities.
    • : the quality of causing death or disaster; a fatal influence; deadliness.
    • : predetermined liability to disaster, misfortune, etc.: a fatality for saying the wrong thing.
    • : the quality of being predetermined by or subject to fate: There is a fatality in human affairs that leads to destruction.
    • : the fate or destiny of a person or thing: Death is the ultimate fatality of all human beings.
    • : a fixed, unalterably predetermined course of things; inevitability:to resign oneself to the fatality of life.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundeath, loss; ability to cause such
Synonyms
accident事故,意外事故,意外,意外事件casualty伤员,伤亡人员,伤者,伤亡者disaster灾难,灾害,灾祸,灾情mortality死亡率,死亡人数,死亡,死亡率问题deadliness死气沉沉,致命性,致死率,死性destructiveness破坏力,破坏性,毁坏性,毁坏力dying奄奄一息,垂死挣扎,垂死的,奄奄一息的inevitability必然性,不可避免地,不可避免的,不可避免lethality致命性,致死率,致死性,杀伤力necrosis坏死,坏疽noxiousness毒性,恶性,毒害性,恶毒virulence致病性,致病力,毒性,毒力lethalness致命性,致死性,致死率,杀伤力poisonousness毒性,毒害性,毒害,毒物

Examples

  • New York and New Jersey in particular saw hundreds of deaths a day in April, quickly contributing to the country’s total number of fatalities.

  • New York and New Jersey in particular recorded hundreds of deaths a day in April, quickly contributing to the country’s total number of fatalities.

  • If we compare the necessary spread to achieve herd immunity with the fatality rate, we get a wide range of possible death tolls from the virus.

  • The country’s chief medical officers said Sunday that the Covid-19 fatality rate among those ages 5 to 14 is lower than most seasonal flu infections.

  • Just this past week, California, Florida and Texas, along with a handful of other states, saw record spikes in fatalities.

  • Just as Obama was heading back to his house that night, a 14-year-old named Kevin Diaz became the latest Chicago gun fatality.

  • The Good Wife introduced its potentially fatal fatality into a world already in flux.

  • They're neither rising nor falling, and the highest fatality shooting took place while the assault-weapons ban was in place.

  • The gun-fatality rate for blacks far exceeds that for whites.

  • A 26-year-old man was the first fatality of the riots, found shot in his car.

  • Many, however, are not aware of the fatality attending its use by the brute creation.

  • By a strange fatality, they were generally purblind, and always shyed most fearfully when an Opposition coach approached them.

  • She had fallen in love; fallen with the fatality of the Lemprieres, and with the fine precipitate sweep of her own genius.

  • You would not believe me: you went this morning to St. Catherine's, and by a fatality the prince was there and saw you.'

  • Misfortune, Fatality, had willed that a drop of water thicker than the surrounding medium should pass through one of the mollusks.

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