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English Dictionary: doomed by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
doomed
adj
  1. marked for certain death; "the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed"
  2. in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell; "poor damned souls"
    Synonym(s): cursed, damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved
  3. marked by or promising bad fortune; "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"- W.H.Prescott
    Synonym(s): doomed, ill-fated, ill- omened, ill-starred, unlucky
  4. (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate; "doomed to unhappiness"; "fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination"
    Synonym(s): doomed, fated
n
  1. people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice"
    Synonym(s): doomed, lost
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Doom \Doom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doomed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Dooming}.]
      1. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.]
            --Milton.
  
      2. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to
            consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a
            criminal doomed to chains or death.
  
                     Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  
                     Have I tongue to doom my brother's death? --Shak.
  
      4. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New
            England] --J. Pickering.
  
      5. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to
            appoint, as by decree or by fate.
  
                     A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with
                     difficulties.                                    --Macaulay.
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