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fatalityfa‧tal‧i‧ty /fəˈtæləti/ noun (plural fatalities)   - Airplane fatality rates are low.
- New drugs have reduced the fatality of the disease.
- This year there have been 15% fewer traffic fatalities.
- A further adjustment is required for direct costs associated with a fatality that are not borne by the family of the victim.
- At least one double fatality has been caused in this way.
- But there were no fatalities and the number of accidents for older riders was falling.
- Six months on, few of the fish have grown and fatalities have begun to occur.
- There were no hepatic fatalities in the United States in patients over 10 years of age on monotherapy.
- This is borne out by the 1991 figures which tell us that out of eight fatalities, half involved the tractor.
when someone dies► death · After her husband's death, she moved back to California.· The bomb caused at least one death, and several serious injuries.death from · The number of deaths from AIDS is still increasing in many parts of the world.the death of somebody formal · A comet appeared at the time of the death of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.the death toll (=the number of deaths in one terrible event) · The latest death toll in the Turkish earthquake is over 2000.accidental death (=death resulting from an accident - used in official contexts) · The policy provides full insurance in the case of accidental death.untimely death (=death that comes earlier than is normally expected) · Basquiat's work had become well known even before his untimely death at age 27.on somebody's death (=when they die) · Catherine will inherit a large sum of money on her father's death. ► fatalities the number of people who have died in accidents or from illnesses, especially when this is being calculated officially: · A fifth of all road fatalities are caused by people not wearing seatbelts.· An attack on the city would cause tens of thousands of civilian fatalities. ► loss of life formal the deaths of people in an accident or a war: · The plane managed to crash-land on St. Lawrence Island with no loss of life.· The Bishop condemned what he called "this futile and tragic loss of life". ► Deathasphyxia, nounautopsy, nounbarrow, nounbequeath, verbbereaved, adjectivebereavement, nounbier, nounbody bag, nounbody count, nounburial, nounbury, verbcasket, nouncatacomb, nouncatafalque, nouncemetery, nouncenotaph, nouncharnel house, nounchurchyard, nouncoffin, nouncommittal, nouncondolence, nouncoroner, nouncorpse, nouncortege, nouncot death, nouncremate, verbcrematorium, nouncrib death, nouncrucifixion, nouncrucify, verbcrypt, noundeath mask, noundemise, noundeparted, adjectiveD.O.A., adjectivedrown, verbembalm, verbend, nounepitaph, nouneulogy, nounexhume, verbexpire, verbfatality, nounfuneral, nounfunerary, adjectivefunereal, adjectivegrave, noungravedigger, noungravestone, noungraveyard, nounheadstone, nounhearse, nounhospice, nouninter, verbinterment, nounmausoleum, nounmorgue, nounmortality, nounmortician, nounmortuary, nounmortuary, adjectivemourner, nounmourning, nounmummify, verbmummy, nounnecrophilia, nounobsequies, nounpall, nounpallbearer, nounpassing, nounperish, verbplot, nounprobate, nounprobate, verbpyre, nounquietus, nounremains, nounrest, verbrigor mortis, nounRIP, rise, verbsarcophagus, nounsepulchre, nounshroud, nounthrenody, nountoll, nountomb, nountombstone, nountumulus, nounundertaker, nounundertaking, nounurn, nounvault, nounwake, nounwar memorial, nounwill, nounwinding sheet, nounwreath, noun NOUN► rate· Severe deliriumtremens has a fatality rate of 20%, higher than any drug except the barbiturates.· According to the National Fire Protection Association, we have the highest fatality rate from fire in the industrial world. 1[countable] a death in an accident or a violent attack:  a 50% increase in the number of traffic fatalities2[uncountable] formal the fact that a disease is certain to cause death: The most serious form of skin cancer has a 30 percent fatality rate.3[uncountable] formal the feeling that you cannot control what happens to you |