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Destined   /dˈɛstɪnd/   Listen
Destined

adjective
1.
Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in 'college-bound students'.  Synonym: bound.  "A flight destined for New York"
2.
(usually followed by 'to') governed by fate.  Synonym: bound.  "An old house destined to be demolished" , "He is destined to be famous"



Destine

verb
(past & past part. destined; pres. part. destining)
1.
Decree or designate beforehand.  Synonyms: designate, doom, fate.
2.
Design or destine.  Synonyms: designate, intend, specify.






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"Destined" Quotes from Famous Books



... as well as a less hazardous propeller; and a natural condition of resistance to the action of the elements; will make travel by water a forcible rival to the speed attained upon land, and bring all the distant countries in contact with our civilization, to the profit of all. This metal is destined to annihilate space even beyond the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various

... festive mummeries of the Rosati was a young officer of Engineers, who was destined to be his colleague in the dread Committee of Public Safety, and to leave an important name in French history. In the garrison of Arras, Carnot was quartered,—that iron head, whose genius for the administrative organisation of war achieved even greater things for the new republic ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) - Essay 1: Robespierre • John Morley

... in New York procured testimony which was subsequently proven in court to have been perjured, to bolster up the falsehood. In further justification, the German government adduced the fact that the ship was carrying ammunition which it said was "destined for the destruction of brave German soldiers." This contention our government rightly ...
— History of the American Negro in the Great World War • W. Allison Sweeney

... destined to go to Egypt without needing his uncle. He became more and more trusted by the firm which employed him, and at last it was determined to send him out to the house at Cairo on important business. His absence was a desolation for Mrs Forsyth and Beatrice; but it meant money for one thing, and, ...
— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough

... which was not destined for himself, jealous of Dante as of the universe, a refined ...
— The Red Lily, Complete • Anatole France


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