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fatal adjective [ ˈfeɪt(ə)l ]

• causing death.
• "a fatal accident"
Similar: deadly, lethal, mortal, causing death, death dealing, killing, final, terminal, incurable, untreatable, inoperable, malignant, tragic, deathly, baneful,
Opposite: harmless, superficial,
Origin: late Middle English (in the senses ‘destined by fate’ and ‘ominous’): from Old French, or from Latin fatalis, from fatum (see fate).


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