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fatal English

Meaning fatal meaning

What does fatal mean?
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fatal

If something is fatal, it causes death or destruction. The injury was fatal. If something is fatal, it stops something from working. The computer had a fatal error and shut down. If something is fatal, it proceeded from or was assigned by fate or destiny.

fatal

bringing death (= fateful) having momentous consequences; of decisive importance that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea — Saturday Rev the fatal day of the election finally arrived controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined a fatal series of events (= black, calamitous, disastrous, fateful) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin the stock market crashed on Black Friday a calamitous defeat the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory — Charles Darwin it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it — Douglas MacArthur a fateful error

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Topics fatal topics

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  • What words describe an illness or wound that will cause the person to die?

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Simple sentences

Life is a fatal sexually transmitted disease.
He had a fatal accident.
The last wound proved fatal.
Lack of oxygen is fatal to most animals.
I was led to the conclusion that we made a fatal mistake.
The wound was fatal to him.
Smoking may be fatal.
About a third of these diseases can be cured, but the others may be serious, or even fatal.
It could be fatal.
He had a fatal lack of ability to think logically.
An ectopic pregnancy is dangerous and potentially fatal for the mother.
His nerves were so worked up that the appearance of any dog might have had a fatal effect upon his diseased heart.
A mistake would have been fatal.
A slip of the tongue is sometimes fatal to a politician.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Is it fatal?
You have made a fatal mistake.

Movie subtitles

Fatal accidents, drowning, friendly fire.
He is told that drinking alcohol will prove fatal for him.
The fatal daybreak.
Any undue strain on your part might easily prove fatal.
But you're letting it interfere with your career, and that is fatal.
Now, remember, a slip-up now would be fatal.
It's fatal.
I remember a situation almost like this in an old play called The Fatal Hour, or She Should've Known Better.
From whom? - From a virulent and fatal poison.
Your further presence here would be fatal.
When a torpedo hits so small a ship as a destroyer, the result is bound to be fairly devastating, if not fatal.
In a national crisis, they may be fatal.
Behold the ordnance on their carriages, with fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.
She has four fatal diseases.
Because that kind of man would make mistakes, fatal errors.
Ireland's been fatal to every commander who risked his fortune there.
A romance would be fatal.
Its bite is fatal?
This is a fatal blow!
You drink too much, and that's not fatal.
I'm trying to convince you that your lack of human and emotional experience is bad for you as a doctor and fatal for you as a woman.
We had been afraid that a fatal accident might have happened to Her Majesty.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
The one half of my life has laid the other in the grave, and compels me to revenge, after this fatal blow, that which I have no more on that which still remains.
A feeling of sad dignity comes upon him, and that's fatal for a comic.
A fatal promise.
So you're taking the fatal plunge.
Doesn't that reassure you that I have no fatal intentions?
The fatal vegetables had been picked by our deaf-mute. and that night, the house contained 11 corpses.
The incredible, unhoped-for mutation was both. beneficial and fatal to me.
As you all know, a rupture of the liver is generally fatal because of hemorrhage.
Yeah. That was my fatal mistake.
Well, isn't all this beating likely to be fatal?
Not before tomorrow it would be fatal.
Hello, old boy, you seem to have a fatal fascination for that horse.
There is no alternative but to tell you this. Your system has already absorbed sufficient toxin to prove fatal.
As the adversary of the one who will defend her, my presence at your side could be, if not fatal, at least prejudicial to her.

News and current affairs

The financial crisis delivered a fatal blow to that overconfidence in scientific economics.
Here the IMF made its fatal mistake.
The only way to extricate Syria from the fatal Iranian embrace is to draw it into a regional scheme for peace.
Fail, and you will deal the world trading system a near-fatal blow, fostering disillusionment in the South and protectionism in the North.
Though Ebola was known to be both contagious and often fatal, it was thought that only Africa's impoverished rural population was at risk.
But long-term use of such medication can be fatal.
The fatal human instincts of greed and hubris can be tamed only with some elementary ethical norms.
Some will say that the fatal mistake was allowing Greece to adopt the euro in the first place.
But its failure, and the failure of its European shareholders, to adhere to its own best practices may eventually prove to have been a fatal misstep.
But they don't disappear, and Darwin was so puzzled by this that he spoke of altruism as a problem that could prove fatal to his whole theory of evolution.
Or is it subject to a fatal compulsion to repeat the same mistakes, despite the disastrous lessons of the past?
Indeed, from this point began the fatal rivalry between Japan and the US that culminated in Pearl Harbor.
So the regime is making a fatal error if it thinks that its old diversionary tactics will continue to provide it with immunity.
Major central banks can generally withstand failure to achieve targets without a fatal loss of credibility.
Unlicensed drivers, he found, are nearly five times more likely to be in a fatal crash.
MONTREAL - Many of us are terrified by the prospect of having a debilitating stroke or a fatal heart attack.
Sacrifice, too many Europeans believe, is not laying the groundwork for a better, more prosperous Europe, but is dragging them into a fatal tailspin.
This bears an eerie resemblance to the script of 2004-2006, when the Fed's incremental approach led to the near-fatal mistake of condoning mounting excesses in financial markets and the real economy.
But history can never be so neatly potted, and Syriza's interpretation suffers from some fatal lacunae.
Even if this will not immediately bring Saddam's regime down, such active attempts at undermining his rule will certainly make Saddam nervous, and as Ceausescu and Milosevic have shown, nervous dictators make fatal mistakes.
While opposition to his rule among top clerics in Qom worries Khamenei, opposition within the Revolutionary Guard could be fatal for him.
But this model suffers from two fatal weaknesses.
The poor in developing countries have none of these benefits, which proves fatal for an estimated 18 million of them each year.

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