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{ "term": "fate", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "ox5000": true, "cefr": "c1", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "the things, especially bad things, that will happen or have happened to somebody/something", "cefr": "c1", "examples": [ { "text": "**The fate of** the three men is unknown." }, { "text": "She sat outside, waiting to find out her fate." }, { "text": "The court will **decide our fate/fates**." }, { "text": "Each of the managers **suffered the same fate**." }, { "text": "He warned about the scam so others could **avoid** a similar **fate**." }, { "text": "Inhabitants of war-torn areas have been **abandoned to their fate**." }, { "text": "From that moment **our fate was sealed** *(= our future was decided)*." }, { "text": "He faces a grim fate if he is sent back to his own country." }, { "text": "He had no desire to share the fate of his executed comrades." }, { "text": "He had signed his confession and sealed his own fate." }, { "text": "He will learn his fate in court tomorrow." }, { "text": "His brother met an altogether different fate." }, { "text": "His fate rests in the hands of the judges." }, { "text": "Instead of just bemoaning your fate, why not do something to change it?" }, { "text": "Jackson deserves a better fate than this." }, { "text": "Our fate is tied to yours." }, { "text": "She broke her ankle before the big game, then suffered the same fate a month later." }, { "text": "She faces an uncertain fate." }, { "text": "She has taken steps to control her own fate." }, { "text": "She managed to escape the fate of the other rebels." }, { "text": "The condemned men were resigned to their fate." }, { "text": "The convicts awaited their fate in prison." }, { "text": "The fate of the African wild dog hangs in the balance." }, { "text": "The jury held the fate of the accused in their hands." }, { "text": "The ultimate fate of the captured troops is unknown." }, { "text": "They decided to kill themselves rather than suffer a worse fate at the hands of their enemy." }, { "text": "They were warned of the dreadful fate that awaited them if ever they returned to their homes." }, { "text": "They're worried about their political fate." }, { "text": "This team's fate depends on how it performs today." }, { "text": "Under-representation is the likely fate of small parties." }, { "text": "What an unfortunate fate the gods had condemned her to." }, { "text": "What had he done to deserve such a terrible fate?" }, { "text": "Will it change the fate of the company?" }, { "text": "Worst of all was the fate that befell the captured rebel general." }, { "text": "the almost inevitable fate awaiting gorillas and tigers" }, { "text": "the rights of a woman to choose the fate of her body" }, { "text": "From the moment the hijackers took over the plane, their fate was sealed." }, { "text": "Fortunately, Robert was spared this cruel fate." }, { "text": "He had no idea what fate was in store for him." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["awful", "grim", "horrible"], "verb + fate": ["face", "meet", "suffer"], "fate + verb": [ "await somebody/something", "be in store for somebody/something", "lie in store for somebody/something" ], "phrases": [ "leave your fate in somebody’s hands", "place your fate in somebody’s hands", "put your fate in somebody’s hands" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "the power that is believed to control everything that happens and that cannot be stopped or changed", "cefr": "c1", "examples": [ { "text": "Fate was kind to me that day." }, { "text": "By a strange **twist of fate**, Andy and I were on the same plane." }, { "text": "Anne accepted the cruel hand that fate had dealt her." }, { "text": "Fate decreed that she would never reach America." }, { "text": "Fate took a hand in (= influenced ) the outcome of the championship." }, { "text": "Fate was not smiling upon her today." }, { "text": "For some reason fate conspired against them and everything they did was problematic." }, { "text": "He believed that the universe was controlled by the whims of a cruel fate." }, { "text": "He secretly hoped that fate would intervene and save him having to meet her." }, { "text": "He was content standing aside, letting fate take its course." }, { "text": "I have a great deal of trust and I leave everything to fate." }, { "text": "It seemed a cruel twist of fate that the composer should have died so young." }, { "text": "Little did she know what fate had in store for her." }, { "text": "Only weeks later fate struck again, leaving her unable to compete." }, { "text": "Such coincidences are almost enough to make one believe in fate." }, { "text": "The new job had come at just the right time for him. Was it the hand of fate?" }, { "text": "the prophet who predicts fate and can see the future" }, { "text": "He suddenly started to rail against fate and all the things that had happened to him." } ], "topics": ["Religion and festivals"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["cruel", "kind"], "verb + fate": ["believe in", "tempt", "leave something to"], "fate + verb": ["decide something", "decree something", "intervene"], "phrases": ["an accident of fate", "a turn of fate", "a twist of fate"] } }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "a terrible thing that could happen", "labels": "(often humorous)", "examples": [ { "text": "At the last minute she was saved from a fate worse than death." }, { "text": "Getting married seemed a fate worse than death." }, { "text": "Obeying his parents' wishes for his life seemed a fate worse than death." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to do something too confidently in a way that might mean that your good luck will come to an end", "examples": [ { "text": "She felt it would be tempting fate to try the difficult climb a second time." }, { "text": "It would be tempting fate to say that we will definitely win the game." } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/feɪt/", "audio": "fa/fate/fate__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/feɪt/", "audio": "fa/fate/fate__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Italian fato or (later) from its source, Latin fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’." }