Meanings (ES + gloss)
fatal
Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.
She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an…
fatal
Foreboding death or great disaster.
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family p…
fatal • mortal
Causing death or destruction.
Author Rita Mae Brown consistently strings together short comical movie clips which may be fine for screenplays but fatal in novels. Unfortunately, Toder chooses to imitate this mo…
a fatal wound; a fatal disease; that fatal day; a fatal mistake
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