fate

• accident
• afterclap
• aftereffect
• afterglow
• aftermath
• aftershock
• annihilation
• anticipate
• assassination
• augur
• backwash
• blowback
• bode
• break
• by-product
• casualty
• chance
• child
• circumstance
• conclusion
• condemn
• consequence
• corollary
• cup
• curtains
• death
• decease
• demise
• denouement
• destination
• destine
• destiny
• destruction
• development
• dissolution
• divine
• divine will
• doom
• echo
• effect
• end
• ending
• execution
• exit
• expiration
• expiry
• extermination
• fallout
• fatality
• forbode
• forebode
• forecast
• foredoom
• foreknow
• foreordain
• foresee
• foretell
• fortune
• fruit
• future
• grave
• great divide
• handwriting on the wall
• hap
• happenchance
• happenstance
• hazard
• horoscope
• implication
• inescapableness
• issue
• karma
• killing
• kismet
• lot
• luck
• martyrdom
• massacre
• matter of course
• moirai
• nemesis
• offshoot
• ordain
• outcome
• outgrowth
• passage
• passing
• portend
• portion
• precipitate
• preconceive
• predestinate
• predestination
• predestine
• predetermine
• predict
• prejudge
• preordain
• presage
• product
• prognosticate
• prophesy
• providence
• quietus
• ramification
• repercussion
• result
• resultant
• ripple
• ruin
• self-destruction
• self-murder
• self-slaughter
• sentence
• sequel
• sequence
• side effect
• side reaction
• slaughter
• sleep
• spin-off
• stars
• suicide
• termination
• upshot
• wheel of fortune

• antecedent
• base
• basis
• beginning
• birth
• causation
• cause
• commencement
• consideration
• creation
• determinant
• existence
• factor
• foundation
• genesis
• ground
• groundwork
• impetus
• incentive
• inspiration
• instigation
• life
• misfortune
• mother
• nativity
• occasion
• opening
• origin
• origination
• reason
• rise
• root
• source
• spring
• start
• stimulus
• whole

• noun
  1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
  2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  3. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
  4. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
  5. Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
• verb
  1. To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

• She believed it was fate that brought them together.
• The hero accepted his fate with courage and dignity.
• No one can escape their fate, no matter how hard they try.
• The villagers feared the storm would decide their fate.
• He left everything to fate, refusing to make a decision.

karma

backwash

ill

effect

fallout

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