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Doomed

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Noun

1. doomed, lost

people who are destined to die soon

Example Sentences:
'the agony of the doomed was in his voice'

Adjective

2. doomed

marked for certain death

Example Sentences:
'the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed'

3. cursed, damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved

in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell

Example Sentences:
'poor damned souls'

4. doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky

marked by or promising bad fortune

Example Sentences:
'their business venture was doomed from the start'
'an ill-fated business venture'
'an ill-starred romance'
'the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons'

5. doomed, fated

(usually followed by to') determined by tragic fate

Example Sentences:
'doomed to unhappiness'
'fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Doomed

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adjective
bound to fail; hopeless
Firemen battled through the smoke in a doomed attempt to rescue the children.
I used to pour time and energy into projects that were doomed from the start.
Their marriage was doomed to failure.
He knew that if he lived, he would be doomed to spend the war as a prisoner.

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Doomed

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n.
1. Inevitable destruction or ruin: a tyrant who finally met his doom.
2. A decision or judgment, especially an official condemnation to a severe penalty.
3. Judgment Day.
4. A statute or ordinance, especially one in force in Anglo-Saxon England.
tr.v. doomed, doom·ing, dooms
1. To condemn to ruination or death.
2. To cause to come to an inevitable bad end; destine to end badly: "With the benefit of hindsight, the fans felt that they knew all along that the Red Sox were doomed to lose" (Daniel L. Schachter).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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