Fatality vs Perish - What's the difference?
fatality | perish |
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.
To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
To die; to cease to live.
* 1719 ,
(obsolete) To cause to perish.
As a noun fatality
is the state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.As a verb perish is
to pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.fatality
English
Noun
(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...
Synonyms
* (state proceeding from destiny) inevitability * mortalityperish
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Verb
(es)- ...the ship struck upon a sand, and ... the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were immediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.
- (Francis Bacon)
