fatality

1. The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]Synonyms: inevitability, banker, cert, certainty, certitude, cinch, dead cert, fatality

2. Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]Synonyms: mortality

3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]Examples: "What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?"Synonyms: destiny, doom, chance, destin, destiny, doom, fatality, fate

4. An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]Examples: "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..."

5. (video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.Examples: "My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent."