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  • adjective Certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of doom.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
  • adjective marked for certain death
  • adjective (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate
  • noun people who are destined to die soon
  • adjective marked by or promising bad fortune

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