doomed
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doomed (comparative more doomed, superlative most doomed)
- Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
- Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
- 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2022, 15:10 from the start:
- 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.
- (archaic) Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.
- 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
- 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.
- 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
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certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
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Verb[edit]
doomed
- simple past tense and past participle of doom
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