Killed vs Fatality - What's the difference?
killed | fatality |
(kill)
(metallurgy, of steel) deoxidized
The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
* William Wilkie Collins
Death.
An accident that causes death.
* 2011 , David Foster Wallace, The Pale King , page 13:
(video games ) A move where one character kills another.
As a verb killed
is (kill).As an adjective killed
is (metallurgy|of steel) deoxidized.As a noun fatality is
the state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.killed
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* (English Citations of "killed")Derived terms
* must have killed a ChinamanAdjective
(-)fatality
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(fatalities)- What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities ?
- the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...