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| fates | |
| 1. n. plural of fate |  |
| fate | |
| 1. n. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. | |
| 2. n. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. | |
| 3. n. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc. | |
| Accept your fate. | |
| 4. n. (mythology) alternative case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings). | |
| 5. v. To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. | |
| The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur. | |
