adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fatal accident (= in which someone is killed )
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a fatal accident involving a bus and a cyclist
a fatal crash (= in which someone is killed )
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There have been several fatal crashes on this road.
a fatal error (= extremely serious, so that you are certain to fail )
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Telling your staff they are not important is a fatal error.
a fatal mistake (= a very bad mistake, often one that ends something )
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His fatal mistake was to underestimate his opponent.
a fatal stroke (= one that kills someone )
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He suffered a fatal stroke in April.
a lethal/fatal dose (= an amount that kills you )
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She took a lethal dose of painkillers.
a mortal/fatal/death blow (= causing something to end )
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When he quit it dealt a mortal blow to the show.
fatal flaw (= a weakness that makes something certain to fail )
fatal (= that kills someone )
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Fortunately, his injuries weren’t fatal.
fatal (= causing death quite quickly )
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She developed a fatal illness.
fatal/deadly (= that causes death )
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If left untreated, the disease can be fatal.
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Thousands of children are struck down by this deadly disease every year.
the fatal shot (= the shot that killed someone )
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It wasn’t clear who had fired the fatal shot.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
often
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Until recent improvements in treatment, the illness was often fatal .
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That turned out to be a dangerous and often fatal myth.
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This chapter has dealt with the mechanism of a debilitating and often fatal symptom of disease, namely diarrhoea.
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One of the Seven Deadly Sins and the one most often fatal to the great ones.
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Small quantities of copper are often fatal to invertebrates.
potentially
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This time though, the damage was potentially fatal .
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It is standard medical practice here not to tell the patient about potentially fatal illnesses, especially cancer.
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Some were present in potentially fatal quantities.
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In the doorway stands 2-year-old Davell Payne, a few feet from a potentially fatal tumble down the stairwell.
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Enterocolitis is one of the rare but potentially fatal manifestations of gold toxicity.
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These include the more firmly established association between the drugs and a potentially fatal lung disease, primary pulmonary hypertension.
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Recently I have experienced serious and potentially fatal fevers.
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Preeclampsia is a potentially fatal condition that usually strikes in the last trimester of pregnancy.
sometimes
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The tannins affect the absorption by the birds' guts of certain essential nutrients causing low growth rates which are sometimes fatal .
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It was a dangerous and sometimes fatal job.
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Jaundice associated with liver failure appeared without warning and was sometimes fatal .
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The result is inevitably a clash, sometimes fatal , with livestock and even humans.
■ NOUN
accident
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A vast monument is being built 400m from the highway where Rodrigo had his fatal accident .
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It was the first fatal accident involving ValuJet since the bargain airline began operations in October 1993.
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Blaming terracing alone for the tragedy is rather like banning cars after a fatal accident .
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The Cosbys are getting a dose of what families of homicide and fatal accident victims get routinely.
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Properly interpreted and monitored, the quarter mill map can prevent anything from a stray into controlled airspace to a fatal accident .
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This one-off was destroyed in a fatal accident on September 25 - on its way home from the races.
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This might be justified as a means of signalling the connection between drunken driving and fatal accidents .
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However, after a number of fatal accidents this year, some people are questioning whether grooming is such a great idea.
blow
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For the prosecution case to stand, it will be necessary to prove that Lenny McLean struck the fatal blow .
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His presidential hopes thus suffered a fatal blow in the snow drifts of New Hampshire.
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Experts claim that at least half were inflicted well before the fatal blow .
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This was the first time he dealt a fatal blow without intending it.
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The woman had lashed out in fear and given the bird a fatal blow , feathers everywhere.
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He had not delivered the fatal blows , he had not pulled the trigger.
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Who might strike the fatal blow this time?
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The sudden resignations looked like a fatal blow to Mr Ciampi at the start of reform.
cancer
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Incident and fatal cancers were not significantly increased in male or female patients taking atenolol.
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By contrast, the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million.
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The estimated risk factors for radiation-induced fatal cancers and serious hereditary damage are given in table 5.4.
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Validation before linking showed that 92% of fatal cancers known to the clinic were also known to the registry.
case
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Five of the six presumed urban cases in Santa Cruz died, which suggests that non-fatal cases were missed.
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We report a fatal case of toxic shock syndrome in a 14 year old girl associated with minor day case dermatological surgery.
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Create lever-arch files with in-house material on subjects such as costs, structured settlements and fatal cases .
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In cotton-harvesting, the use of pesticides has provoked severe or fatal cases of poisoning.
consequence
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This happened with fatal consequences in 1953 when the Lee Wick wall collapsed sending water shooting over the marshes to Jaywick.
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Could it not have been a minor act of spite on some one's part which had had unintended fatal consequences ?
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An old armchair could have fatal consequences , long before the fire service has arrived to tackle the flames.
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A distraction may cause it to wander off into the road, with fatal consequences .
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It produces diarrhoea, especially in young children, and in immunologically compromised adults may multiply within the host with fatal consequences .
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Rarely, the fish slip inside the mouth and can cause acute respiratory obstruction with fatal consequences .
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Some experts recommend introducing these fish into the aquarium in advance of other fish to reduce the fatal consequences 3.
crash
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It was the first fatal crash in the airliner's 31-year history.
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Officials are still trying to piece together what happened before the fatal crash Sunday.
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Some who witnessed the fatal crash from the stands in Daytona made the 500-mile trip to North Carolina to pay homage there.
disease
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Botulism is another fatal disease which has come to the fore in recent years.
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At that time, this was a fatal disease .
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In Britain 70 people have died and nine others are infected by the invariably fatal disease .
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For, unfortunately, even when science eliminates all fatal diseases , 100 percent of us still are going to die.
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I have come to the same conclusion as many people who find that they have a potentially fatal disease .
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When cystic fibrosis was first described it was a fatal disease of children.
error
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It had made the fatal error of overkill.
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This determination then leads him into his fatal error .
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It is a fatal error to assume that lowering the price makes an indifferent product saleable to a general market.
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Surely everyone knows the fatal errors of all those isms.
flaw
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His reconstruction of the crimes had suffered from one fatal flaw .
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Many have argued that one of the fatal flaws a manager can have is unwillingness or inability to delegate.
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False percentages A fatal flaw in using percentages is to try and add them up when this is not really possible.
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She warns of thirst for knowledge tipping over into dangerous greed, and of youthful promise lost for one fatal flaw .
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But there is a fatal flaw in such policies: they assume that all cultures are equal in power.
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Yet yesterday's report, which highlighted fatal flaws in the system, showed that was clearly not the case.
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There were three fatal flaws to the Chancellor's strategy.
heart
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On hearing the news, her boyfriend promptly dumps her and father has a fatal heart attack.
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In Connecticut, a Waterbury man suffered a fatal heart attack Sunday night after going outside to fill his snowblower with gasoline.
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Smoking - particularly cigarettes - is the cause of one in every five fatal heart attacks.
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At this age, heavy smokers have 10 to 15 times the rate of fatal heart attacks of nonsmokers.
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He couldn't very well go up to him and accuse him of giving old Mr Schofield a fatal heart attack.
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A fatal heart attack happens in Britain every three minutes.
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He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition.
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There were only two fatal strokes and five fatal heart attacks in this study.
illness
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A third illustration is asbestos manufacture, which is implicated in fatal illness amongst employees and others.
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It is standard medical practice here not to tell the patient about potentially fatal illnesses , especially cancer.
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It was while he was besieging that town that the king contracted a fatal illness .
injury
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There is little doubt that use of a full harness prevented serious if not fatal injuries to the pilot.
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Yet only three of the passengers sustained fatal injuries from that impact.
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Both pilots received fatal injuries at impact.
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The blast set the 29-year-old on fire and only the prompt action of a passer-by prevented potentially fatal injuries .
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No broken bones or fatal injuries .
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It will be a matter of surprise for us if there were no fatal injuries .
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Peter Vanezis, a pathologist, told the hearing that the fatal injury was brain haemorrhaging caused by a 15-centimetre skull fracture.
mistake
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But then, during the monsoon of 1661, she made her fatal mistake .
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It was an expensive, almost financially fatal mistake .
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This may be a fatal mistake .
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I almost made a fatal mistake when she asked me to transfer the call to the Oval Office.
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But then we asked him a bit more about it and he made his fatal mistake .
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Which uncle had told him that was a fatal mistake ?
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However, in the choice of his last collaborator, Henry Philips, he made a fatal mistake .
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The porpoises delight in riding on the bow waves of motor boats, which has frequently proved to be a fatal mistake .
result
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Individual immortality would threaten the species as a whole - almost certainly with fatal results .
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A second time they came forward in greater numbers and with more boldness and determination, but with even more fatal results .
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Berg tapped into the unpalatable side of public opinion, becoming addicted to verbal wind-ups and hostility with fatal results .
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Those having no money were forced to give up their clothes and sleep on the bare floor, often with fatal results .
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In the crisis, quite unexpectedly, Callaghan seemed to lose some of his touch, with fatal results .
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The horse therefore must have a mechanism to remove this excess heat build-up to prevent his body temperature increasing with fatal results .
shot
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But the hearing was unable to decide who fired the fatal shots and an accident verdict was recorded.
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He claims they were ordered out of the area after the fatal shot was fired by either Raul or Jowers.
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Evans, who fired the fatal shot , was sentenced to life in prison.
stabbing
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The campaign came in response to a spate of fatal stabbings and involved extra police officers being drafted in to patrol late-night trouble spots.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a fatal heart attack
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A sudden shock could be fatal to anyone with a weak heart.
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He suffered a fatal injury to the neck.
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Meyer's car was involved in a fatal accident on the freeway.
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The gas can be fatal if inhaled in large amounts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Individual immortality would threaten the species as a whole - almost certainly with fatal results.
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Its fatal venom had no effect on him.
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Otherwise, he fears a fatal collision is on the horizon.
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Recently I have experienced near fatal fevers.
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She will host the surprise get-together tomorrow as a thank you to the victims of a fatal muscle wasting disease.
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Some were present in potentially fatal quantities.
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The delay may be disappointing but is not fatal .