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Inflections of 'fate' (v): (⇒ conjugate)
fates
v 3rd person singular
fating
v pres p
fated
v past
fated
v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
fate /feɪt/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. something that unavoidably happens to a person;
    one's fortune or lot:[countable* usually singular]The judge decided her fate.
  2. the power by which events are thought to be decided;
    destiny:[uncountable]By a strange twist of fate, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826.
  3. ultimate outcome;
    final course or state:[countable]the fate of a political campaign.
  4. death, destruction, or ruin:[uncountable]They met their fate on the battlefield.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
fate  (fāt),USA pronunciation n., v., fat•ed, fat•ing. 
n. 
  1. something that unavoidably befalls a person;
    fortune;
    lot:It is always his fate to be left behind.
  2. the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed;
    the decreed cause of events;
    time:Fate decreed that they would never meet again.
  3. that which is inevitably predetermined;
    destiny:Death is our ineluctable fate.
  4. a prophetic declaration of what must be:The oracle pronounced their fate.
  5. death, destruction, or ruin.
  6. Mythology the Fates, [Class. Myth.]the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae.

v.t. 
  1. to predetermine, as by the decree of fate;
    destine (used in the passive):a person who was fated to be the savior of the country.
  • Latin fātum utterance, decree of fate, destiny, origin, originally neuter of fātus, past participle of fārī to speak
  • Middle English 1325–75
    1. karma, kismet; chance, luck. Fate, destiny, doom refer to the idea of a fortune, usually adverse, that is predetermined and inescapable. The three words are frequently interchangeable. Fate stresses the irrationality and impersonal character of events:It was Napoleon's fate to be exiled.The word is often lightly used, however:It was my fate to meet her that very afternoon.Destiny emphasizes the idea of an unalterable course of events, and is often used of a propitious fortune:It was his destiny to save his nation.Doom esp. applies to the final ending, always unhappy or terrible, brought about by destiny or fate:He met his doom bravely. 7. foreordain, preordain.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
fate /feɪt/ n
  1. the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events
  2. the inevitable fortune that befalls a person or thing; destiny
  3. the end or final result
  4. a calamitous or unfavourable outcome or result; death, destruction, or downfall
 vb
  1. (transitive; usually passive) to predetermine; doom: he was fated to lose the game
Etymology: 14th Century: from Latin fātum oracular utterance, from fārī to speak
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