predestine
🇬🇧 UK/pri:'destin/🇺🇸 US
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Definitions
v.
To determine or decree the fate of something in advance, especially by divine will.
预先注定,命中注定
🧩 Root Breakdown
Root-derivedprebefore
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destinroot
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esuffix
=predestine
Common Collocations
- 1.predestined fate命中注定的命运
- 2.predestined path注定的道路
- 3.[predestined outcome]预先注定的结果
- 4.predestined by God上帝预定
Example Sentences
- 1.
Some believe that certain individuals are predestined for greatness from birth.
- 2.
She felt as though their meeting was predestined, as if fate had arranged it all.
- 3.
The doctrine holds that souls are predestined for either salvation or damnation.