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noun Classical Mythology.
- the Fate who cuts the thread of life.
noun
- Greek myth the one of the three Fates who severs the thread of life
one of the Fates (the one who holds the shears and determines the manner of a person’s death and cuts the thread), from Greek, “inflexible,” literally “not to be turned away,” from a- “not” (see a- (3)) + stem of trepein “to turn” (see trope). Related form Atropa was the Greek name for deadly nightshade.