DIVINE


Meaning of DIVINE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪvaɪn ]

( divines, divining, divined)

1.

You use divine to describe something that is provided by or relates to a god or goddess.

He suggested that the civil war had been a divine punishment.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

• di‧vine‧ly

The law was divinely ordained.

ADV : usu ADV -ed

2.

If you divine something, you discover or learn it by guessing. ( LITERARY )

...the child’s ability to divine the needs of its parents and respond to them...

From this he divined that she did not like him much.

VERB : V n , V that , also V wh

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