destinedadjective
uk/ˈdes.tɪnd/us/ˈdes.tɪnd/destined adjective (PURPOSE)
intended (for a particular purpose):
The money was destined for the relief of poverty, but was diverted by corrupt officials.
These cars are destined for the European market.
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Planning, expecting and arranging
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim
- aim at sth
- calculate
- chart
- engineer
- in the pipeline idiom
- intend
- intent
- intention
- intentional
- promise
- scheme
- scientific
- see sth coming idiom
- set sth up
- strategic
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destined adjective (PLACE)
travelling or being sent to somewhere:
Customs officers have seized nearly a ton of heroin destined for New York.
destined adjective (FUTURE)
controlled by fate, and not by humans:
She is destined for an extremely successful career.
[ + to infinitive ] These plans are destined to fail.
[ + that ] Do you think it was destined that we should one day meet?
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Fate and destiny
- Damocles
- destiny
- fatalism
- fate
- fated
- ill-starred
- in the lap of the gods idiom
- jinx
- lap
- lightning
- lightning never strikes twice idiom
- lot
- luckless
- predestined
- preordain
- providence
- providential
- sword
- write
- written in the stars idiom
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