fate
/feɪt/ verb C2- 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.
He/she/it fates · Past fated · Past participle fated · -ing form fating
Verb forms
- Base form
- fate
- He/she/it
- fates
- Past
- fated
- Past participle
- fated
- -ing form
- fating
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I am resigned to my fate now, so I don’t think I’ll go out for fear I’ll get unresigned again.
It seems to be my fate.
“Well, what became of Cordelia and Geraldine?” asked Diana, who was beginning to feel rather interested in their fate.
Wholly inattentive to her sister’s feelings, Lydia flew about the house in restless ecstasy, calling for everyone’s congratulations, and laughing and talking with more violence than ever; whilst the luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.
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