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fate | lifeblood |

As a proper noun fate

is any one of the fates.

As a noun lifeblood is

blood which is needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life.

fate

English

(wikipedia fate)

Noun

  • The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
  • *
    • Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate' which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that ' fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  • The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  • Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
  • (lb) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

    • Synonyms

    * destiny * doom * fortune * kismet * lot * necessity * orlay * predestination * wyrd

    Antonyms

    * choice * free will * freedom

    Derived terms

    * fatal * fatalism * fatality * tempt fate

    Related terms

    * amor fati ()

    See also

    * determinism * indeterminism

    Verb

    (fat)
  • To 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.
  • * 2011 , James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)
    • At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.

    Usage notes

    * In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.

    Anagrams

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    lifeblood

    English

    Alternative forms

    * life blood, life's blood

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Blood which is needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life.
  • * circa 1980 , George Spelvin, Petticoat Loose'', Act II, Scene 1, published in ''George Spelvin's theatre book , volume 3:
    • You didn't come to me in time. And by the time you came to me that fool of a doctor had bled and leeched the lifeblood out of Timmy.
  • (figuratively) That which is required for continued existence or function.
  • :Gasoline is the lifeblood of the modern city.
  • * 2006 , James E. Kibler, Memory's Keep , page 55:
    • The road brought invaders who left them hungry and dug up the dead. The road took living children away and made them dead to home. It was as if the roads were veins that bled off lifeblood but never pumped it back in.