seal someone's fate
English
Verb
seal someone's fate (third-person singular simple present seals someone's fate, present participle sealing someone's fate, simple past and past participle sealed someone's fate)
- To prevent (a decision, event, etc.) from being influenced or changed by a willful act; to preempt someone's future actions by deciding the course of events ahead of time.
See also
- fatalism
- fait accompli
Further reading
- “seal someone's fate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “seal someone's fate”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “seal one's fate” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “seal someone's fate” in the Collins English Dictionary