fatality
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6.5
- noun
- /fəˈtælɪti/
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letalidad
- The National Transportation Safety Board reports that U.S. highways, on average, experience 43,300 fatalities per year.
- fatality rate
- case fatality
- high fatality
It is dominated by fatality and shot through with mysterious caprices.
- It is dominated by fatality and shot through with mysterious caprices.
Examples
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While on the global front, every continent is reporting record highs, with many African countries actually suffering heat-related fatalities.
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Other factors may account for the excess of early case fatality in this treatment group.
Academic text (1995) -
We have a confirmed fatality in a parking structure back here.
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Recent studies show a predicted 10 percent increase of fatalities per year.
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Meningococcal septicaemia is a less common form but has a high fatality rate.
Academic text (2011) -
NYPD sources have now confirmed the identities of the four fatalities in the car explosion earlier this afternoon.
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However, a higher case fatality rate highlights its serious life-threatening sequel for goats.
Academic text (2013) -
Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of Hadar Goldin, one of 45 Israeli fatalities during Operation Protective Edge.
Academic text (2015) -
Overall, deaths from IPD decreased from 16% to 12% because of a lower case-fatality rate for persons with non-PCV7 serotype IPD.
Academic text (2012) -
The Ebola virus has a high fatality rate, making early detection crucial.
Synonyms
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A quality that makes something able to kill people or animals
Compounds
- Specialized
The part of people who have a disease and die from it, often shown as a percent
How Deadly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fatality comes from the same root as fatal and fate, from Latin fatum meaning 'fate'. So fatality can also mean the quality or power of causing death, the 'deadliness' of something.