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1.NounThe presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
2.NounThe effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
3.NounAn event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
4.NounDestiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc."Accept your fate."
5.NounAlternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
6.NounThe products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
7.NounThe mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
8.VerbTo 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."