to destine
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5.7
- verb
- /ˈdɛstɪn/
:
destinar a
- Lisa and I were destined to be together.
- seems destined
- destined to become
- destined to return
Or is this destined to be a doomed relationship in the long run?
- Or is this destined to be a doomed relationship in the long run?
- Instead of that, convince yourself that you should be moving and go do what you know you're destined to do.
- Like there's going to be certain things that grip you and disturb you and those are the problems that you're destined to have to contend with.
- See, the problem is you have bought into this false narrative that you are destined for failure because you come from a failed family.
- Perhaps we could question the politics of visibility that disappears, the ongoingness of practices, peoples and things not destined for the archive.
- And that it was by feeling the sense of destiny early on in his, in that he wasn't destined to be the son of a blacksmith.
- The sea is just there and it was a landing place destined, you know, Nazi troops were going to land quite near us.
Examples
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You know, the historian George Santiana once said those who do not appreciate history are destined to repeat it.
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A significant portion of all the catch is destined for American dinner tables.
Academic text (2017) -
And I think us, we are destined to destroy ourselves.
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And I hope that California is not destined to remain this kind of California.
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You are destined for nothing more than failure.
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Technology and engineering education is destined to become the most important subject in future education.
Academic text (2011) -
For a while, I had been convinced that we had been destined for each other.
Fiction book (1994) -
The West as a whole seems destined for a politics of conduct rather than class.
Academic text (1991) -
Each man knows that whoever survives this competition is destined to become a legend in his own time.
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She believes that they are destined to achieve great things together.
Synonyms
405
2.8
Plan for someone or something to be used for a particular purpose
124
5.0
To officially choose someone for a job or role
113
5.8
Cause something to fail or be ruined
61
3.9
To choose someone for a particular job or role
23
5.8
Decide or make a result likely before it happens
6
9.2
To decide in advance, often by fate or God's will
4
7.4
To be chosen by destiny to have a certain result
1
9.9
Decide in advance that something will happen, often by fate or God
1
9.9
To make someone certain to fail or end badly
How Certain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Destine comes from the old Latin verb destinare, which means 'to set' or 'fix' and is the same root you see in destination and destiny. So, to destine someone or something is to 'set' their future for a particular place or role, often with the idea it is meant to happen.