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Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny. / Foreboding death or great disaster. / Causing death or destruction. / (computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.

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Source Word

fatal

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈfeɪtəl/

Adjective

not-comparable

Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny. / Foreboding death or great disaster. / Causing death or destruction. / (computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.

Japanese Meaning

運命や宿命に従い、またはそれによって定められた / 不吉な死や大災害を予感させる / 死や破壊を引き起こす / （計算機用語）プログラムの実行が突然終了する原因となる

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は運命づけられた選択を静かな決意で受け入れ、それが自分の生まれるずっと前に定められていたと確信していた。

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Sense（1）

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 inexpressible thrill.

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Sense（2）

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 perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

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