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单词 preordain
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Definition of preordain in English:

preordain

verb ˌpriːɔːˈdeɪnˌpriɔrˈdeɪn
[with object]
  • Decide or determine (an outcome or course of action) beforehand.

    you might think the company's success was preordained
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The coming correction was preordained by bad policy choices backed by erroneous economic theories.
    • But if the story of Poland tells us anything, it is that a nation's success or failure is never preordained.
    • Recently we heard of a club that had a one-word code preordaining the next seven plays.
    • According to palmistry, there are certain preordained events which will mark our journey though life and will not be avoided, only predicted.
    • He remembered seeing planes flying across the sky to some preordained destination and the feeling of wanting to join them on their voyage.
    • But at least we snatch at the opportunities instead of letting them pass just because they are not preordained in the life plan.
    • This exhibition reminds us that such a result was hardly preordained.
    • Mahan did not hold that the ultimate outcome had been preordained - that is, that naval supremacy as such guaranteed victory.
    • The brute force and overwhelming technological superiority of the world's sole superpower preordains the ultimate outcome.
    • The problem is, those two outcomes aren't preordained.
    • What would happen if I decided to choose a different path then what's been preordained?
    • While this was the largest battle of WWII, the outcome was preordained because the Russians dug in line after line of complicated defenses.
    • The outcome of Soviet history was not preordained.
    • But who can help but feel differently about an athlete who is genetically preordained for success?
    • But there was nothing preordained about the outcome of events in the Balkans in the late 1940s.
    Synonyms
    predestine, destine, foreordain, ordain, fate, doom, foredoom, predetermine, determine, mark out, prescribe
 
 

Definition of preordain in US English:

preordain

verbˌpriɔrˈdeɪnˌprēôrˈdān
[with object]usually be preordained
  • Decide or determine (an outcome or course of action) beforehand.

    you might think the company's success was preordained
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What would happen if I decided to choose a different path then what's been preordained?
    • Mahan did not hold that the ultimate outcome had been preordained - that is, that naval supremacy as such guaranteed victory.
    • But there was nothing preordained about the outcome of events in the Balkans in the late 1940s.
    • While this was the largest battle of WWII, the outcome was preordained because the Russians dug in line after line of complicated defenses.
    • The problem is, those two outcomes aren't preordained.
    • But at least we snatch at the opportunities instead of letting them pass just because they are not preordained in the life plan.
    • The coming correction was preordained by bad policy choices backed by erroneous economic theories.
    • The outcome of Soviet history was not preordained.
    • According to palmistry, there are certain preordained events which will mark our journey though life and will not be avoided, only predicted.
    • He remembered seeing planes flying across the sky to some preordained destination and the feeling of wanting to join them on their voyage.
    • This exhibition reminds us that such a result was hardly preordained.
    • But who can help but feel differently about an athlete who is genetically preordained for success?
    • The brute force and overwhelming technological superiority of the world's sole superpower preordains the ultimate outcome.
    • Recently we heard of a club that had a one-word code preordaining the next seven plays.
    • But if the story of Poland tells us anything, it is that a nation's success or failure is never preordained.
    Synonyms
    predestine, destine, foreordain, ordain, fate, doom, foredoom, predetermine, determine, mark out, prescribe
 
 
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