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DESTINED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'to') governed by fate
Example:
he is destined to be famous
Synonyms:
bound; destined
Classified under:
Similar:
certain; sure (certain to occur; destined or inevitable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in 'college-bound students'
Example:
a flight destined for New York
Synonyms:
bound; destined
Classified under:
Similar:
orientated; oriented (adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb destine
Context examples:
But he was not destined to go far.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
You know Miss Fairfax's situation in life, I conclude; what she is destined to be?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Have you not heard me say that from his earliest hours he was destined for his cousin?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But I must warn you also that, if you think you will find much that is of interest in your guide, you are destined to disappointment.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Indeed I may be superstitious, said Mrs. Micawber, but it appears to me that Mr. Micawber is destined never to receive any answers whatever to the great majority of the communications he writes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
If you are destined to be lucky that day, you need not spend a lot. I have no idea which area will bring you cash.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He rode himself within a spear's-length of his standard, clad from neck to foot in steel, but draped in the long linen gown or parement which was destined to be the cause of his death.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I kept thinking over everything that has been ever since Jonathan came to see me in London, and it all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
These are merely a few of the things that went through my mind, and are related for the sake of vindicating myself in advance in the weak and helpless rôle I was destined to play.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
