verb
- Decree or designate beforehand.
- usage: "She was destined to become a great pianist"
- Design or destine.
- usage: "She was intended to become the director"
adjective
- Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'.
- usage: "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York"
- synonyms: bound
- Usually followed by `to'. ( governed by fate)
- usage: "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous"
- synonyms: bound
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