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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To doom or condemn beforehand.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To doom beforehand; predestinate.
  • noun Previous doom or sentence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To doom beforehand; to predestinate.
  • noun Doom or sentence decreed in advance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A doom that is predicted; destiny
  • verb To predestine a doom; to presage

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

  • verb doom beforehand

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From fore- +‎ doom. Compare foredeem.

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