FATAL definition: 1. A fatal illness, accident, etc. causes death: 2. very serious and having an important bad…. Learn more.
Fatal describes conditions, circumstances, or events that have already caused death or are virtually certain to do so in the future: a fatal accident; a fatal illness. Deadly means capable of killing or of being used to kill: a deadly poison; a deadly weapon.
Fatal, deadly, lethal, mortal apply to something that has caused or is capable of causing death. Fatal may refer to either the future or the past; in either case, it emphasizes inevitability and the inescapable--the disastrous, whether death or dire misfortune: The accident was fatal.
AOL: Chicago police officer in Humboldt Park fatal shooting is stripped of police powers
Chicago police officer in Humboldt Park fatal shooting is stripped of police powers
Jonathan Roldan is charged in the fatal Humboldt Park shooting of US Army veteran Andrew Garay near Saint Louis and Wabansia, Chicago police said.
MSN: Chicago police officer relieved of powers after fatal Humboldt Park shooting
A Chicago police officer was relieved of police powers and reassigned following a fatal March 9 shooting in Humboldt Park that remains under investigation. Officers had attempted to stop a vehicle ...
fatal stresses the inevitability of what has in fact resulted in death or destruction.
Definition of fatal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
fatal meaning, definition, what is fatal: resulting in someone’s death: Learn more.
fatal (comparative more fatal, superlative most fatal) 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 inexpressible thrill.