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/duːmd/
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duːmd
Adjective
Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
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Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
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Moments later, Courageous sheers out of line, smoke and steam venting through a massive hole in her side, the shells having blasted right through whatever excuse for armor was present and detonated amidst the boiler rooms. She is doomed.
Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.
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Bonny Mary Burnet was lost. She left her father's house at nine o'clock on a Wednesday morning, 17th of September, neatly dressed in a white jerkin and green bonnet, with her hay-raik over her shoulder; and that was the last sight she was doomed ever to see of her native cottage.
Adjective
marked for certain death
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the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed
in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
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poor damned souls
marked by or promising bad fortune
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their business venture was doomed from the start
an ill-fated business venture
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an ill-starred romance
(usually followed by ‘to’) determined by tragic fate
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doomed to unhappiness
fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination
Noun
people who are destined to die soon
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the agony of the doomed was in his voice