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Fatal accident   /fˈeɪtəl ˈæksədənt/   Listen
Fatal accident

noun
1.
An accident that causes someone to die.  Synonym: casualty.






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"Fatal accident" Quotes from Famous Books



... "A fatal accident, of a particularly sad and disturbing nature, occurred near Barford, Yorkshire, on Saturday. About four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Linford Pratt, managing clerk to Messrs. Eldrick & Pascoe, Solicitors, of Barford, ...
— The Talleyrand Maxim • J. S. Fletcher

... word in regard to the fatal accident. The circumstances are these: The ascension was given to entertain a military company in which were many of Maloney's friends, and he had told them he would give the most sensational flight they ever heard of. As the balloon was rising with the aeroplane, ...
— A History of Aeronautics • E. Charles Vivian

... for believing that he was then sleeping off his drunkenness at the "Waggon Overthrown." Besides, to Adam, the conception of the future was so inseparable from the painful image of his father that the fear of any fatal accident to him was excluded by the deeply infixed fear of his continual degradation. The next thought that occurred to him was one that made him slip off his shoes and tread lightly upstairs, to listen at the bedroom doors. But both Seth and his mother ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot

... Tape Broke" is the first article of the editorial column, and well describes an example of collapsed activity which the United should avoid. "A Runaway Horse," by Mrs. Ida C. Haughton, is a brief and vivid sketch of a fatal accident. "Tragedy," an exquisite poem by Emilie C. Holladay, deserves very favourable notice for the delicate pathos of its sentiment, and perfect adaptation of the measure to the subject. We may discern a few traces of immaturity ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft



Words linked to "Fatal accident" :   collateral damage, casualty, accident, fatality, human death



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