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-derived
prebefore
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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.

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