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doomed adjective [ duːmd ]

• likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome; ill-fated.
• "the moving story of their doomed love affair"

doom verb

• condemn to certain death or destruction.
• "fuel was spilling out of the damaged wing and the aircraft was doomed"
Origin: Old English dōm ‘statute, judgement’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘to put in place’; related to do1.


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