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destined

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈdɛstɪnd//

Confined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain.

adjective

  1. 1

    Confined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain.

    He is sure he is destined for fame.

    When Hape sauntered over for a try after only three minutes it looked as if England were destined for a comfortable victory, but Georgia are made of sterner stuff, as they showed when running Scotland close in Invercargill last week.

    The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of destinesimple past and past participle of destine

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).