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destined 音标拼音: [d'ɛstɪnd] a. 命定的,注定的 命定的,注定的 destined adj 1: headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ` college- bound students'; " children bound for school"; " a flight destined for New York" [ synonym: { bound}, { destined}] 2: ( usually followed by ` to') governed by fate; " bound to happen"; " an old house destined to be demolished"; " he is destined to be famous" [ synonym: { bound( p)}, { destined}] Destine \ Des" tine\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Destined}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Destining}.] [ F. destiner, L. destinare; de the root of stare to stand. See { Stand}, and cf. { Obstinate}.] To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for. [ 1913 Webster] We are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Till the loathsome opposite Of all my heart had destined, did obtain. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way. -- Longfellow. Syn: To design; mark out; determine; allot; choose; intend; devote; consecrate; doom. [ 1913 Webster] 52 Moby Thesaurus words for " destined": appointed, approaching, bound, certain, coming, designed, desired, destinal, determined, devoted, doomed, emergent, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fateful, fatidic, foredoomed, foreordained, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped- for, imminent, in store, in the cards, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, intended, later, marked, meant, nearing, ordained, planned, plotted, predestined, predetermined, predicted, probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, sure, to come, to- be, ultimate, unavoidable, written
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