fate

What happens to someone or something in the end, especially something bad.

• Nobody knows his fate.
• Both factories suffered the same fate.
• The court will decide the prisoners’ fate tomorrow.

How to use it: the fate of someone/something (The fate of the missing ship remains unknown.)

Similar words: outcome, destiny

Common phrases: someone’s fate, suffer this fate, escape that fate

A power believed to control what happens in people’s lives.

• Do you believe in fate?
• She felt that fate had brought them together.
• We left the decision to fate and tossed a coin.

Similar words: destiny

Common phrases: believe in fate, trust fate, leave to fate

A power believed to control what happens in life.

• Perhaps fate brought us together.
• She believed fate controlled her life.
• Would fate give him another chance?

Similar words: destiny

Common phrases: cruel fate, trust fate, fate intervenes

To make a future event certain to happen through the power of destiny.

• They were fated to fall in love.
• The king seemed fated to lose his crown.
• Was she fated to spend her life alone?

How to use it: be fated to do something (They were fated to meet again.)

Similar words: destine, predestine

Common phrases: fate someone to, be fated to