"bound for" meaning in English

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          "text": "He is bound for failure.",
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          "text": "Meeting us came porters with loads of coal, coke, and lime, in which the district of Nan-ch'uan Hsien is rich. Many loads of pan salt from the Tzu-liu-ching brine wells in Central Szechuan were also bound for Nan-ch'uan Hsien, three miles from which we again struck the right bank of the Nan-ch'uan River, flowing north.",
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          "text": "The train left Doncaster in northern England at 16:25 GMT on Saturday, November 1, bound for London’s King’s Cross station.",
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        "Moving towards, going in the direction of."
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