doomed
Pronunciation Adjective

doomed

  1. Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
    Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
  2. (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.
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  1. Simple past tense and past participle of doom



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