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preordain

preordain verb: to determine the fate of something in advance.

Verb

preordain (third-person singular simple present preordains, present participle preordaining, simple past and past participle preordained)

  1. (transitive) To determine the fate of something in advance.
    • A child! If here the heart turns sick with rath
      To see a little one from birth defiled,
      Or lame or blind, as preordained to languish
      Through youthless life1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

preordain meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Vietnamese

preordain in Tamil

எழு

preordain in Bengali

পূর্বনির্ধারিত করা, ভাগ্যে লেখা থাকা

preordain in Malayalam

destine, predestine, foreordain
മുൻകൂട്ടിവിധിക്കുക, മുൻകൂട്ടി തീർച്ചയാക്കുക, വിധിവശഗമാകുക, വിധിക്കുക, വിധിവിഹിതമാകുക, വിധിയാൽ നിശ്ചയിക്കപ്പെടുക

preordain in Vietnamese

To determine the fate of something in advance
định trước, sắp đặt, an bài

Synonyms of preordain

Forms of preordain

third-person singular presentpreordains
present participlepreordaining
past participlepreordained
pastpreordained

Origin of preordain

From pre- + ordain.

Words formed from preordain

Questions about preordain

What does preordain mean?
Preordain means to determine the fate of something in advance.
What is preordain in Tamil?
Preordain in Tamil is எழு. See Preordain meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is preordain?
Preordain is a verb.
What is the past tense of preordain?
The past tense of preordain is preordained.

Words near preordain in the dictionary

  1. preoptions
  2. preoral
  3. preorally
  4. preorbital
  5. preorbitals
  6. preordain
  7. preordained
  8. preordaining
  9. preordainment
  10. preordainments
  11. preordains

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preordain (page history and authors); preordain (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); preordain (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); preordain (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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