fatality

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity. The video game move sense was popularized by the Mortal Kombat series.

It seemed like a fatality! — The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
Other fatalities were destined to arise. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
(See 1917, 1919.) (H.) *Fair Fatality. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown

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