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- (noun): The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- (noun): The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- (noun): An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- (noun): Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- (noun): Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
- (verb): To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
- Accept your fate.
- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.