destine
verb (used with object)
to set apart for a particular use, purpose, etc.; design; intend.
destines
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present tense formof destine (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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A score that destines young doctors-to-be to a life of ennui in a job they do not enjoy, because they could not match into the competitive specialty of their dreams.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 12, 2020
Armstrong talks about independence, and yet destines himself to the worst kind of dependence—slavery to money-getting.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various
Such a girl may a man marry who destines his days to the wild west; but woe unto him!—woe unto him, should he migrate among the more civilized and less charitable coteries of our neighbors!
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever
Thou knowest well that thy divine father destines thee to wed the Prince of Kush whom but now thou didst smite so fiercely.'
From The World's Desire by Henry Rider Haggard
Not that he deems himself infallible; too many mistakes in following trails prove the contrary; but he thinks that nature destines such sagacity as she has given him, as she destines it to the 'possum.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
