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DOOMED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who are destined to die soon
Example:
the agony of the doomed was in his voice
Synonyms:
doomed; lost
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("doomed" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Derivation:
doomed (marked for certain death)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked for certain death
Example:
the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed
Classified under:
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Derivation:
doomed (people who are destined to die soon)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'to') determined by tragic fate
Example:
fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination
Synonyms:
doomed; fated
Classified under:
Similar:
certain; sure (certain to occur; destined or inevitable)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Marked by or promising bad fortune
Example:
the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons
Synonyms:
doomed; ill-fated; ill-omened; ill-starred; unlucky
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unfortunate (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune)
Sense 4
Meaning:
In danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
Example:
poor damned souls
Synonyms:
cursed; damned; doomed; unredeemed; unsaved
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
lost (spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed)
Domain category:
Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb doom
Context examples:
No more to say—a—or listen to persuasion—go immediately—not capable—a—bear society—upon the track of devoted and doomed traitor—HEEP!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The phantom shapes, which were becoming gradually materialised from the moonbeams, were those of the three ghostly women to whom I was doomed.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I promised I would, and he departed, but it seems as if I was doomed to see a good deal of him, for today as I passed his door on my way out, by accident I knocked against it with my umbrella.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Maria, with only Mr. Rushworth to attend to her, and doomed to the repeated details of his day's sport, good or bad, his boast of his dogs, his jealousy of his neighbours, his doubts of their qualifications, and his zeal after poachers, subjects which will not find their way to female feelings without some talent on one side or some attachment on the other, had missed Mr. Crawford grievously; and Julia, unengaged and unemployed, felt all the right of missing him much more.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into the planet, the impact set wildfires, triggered tsunamis and blasted so much sulfur into the atmosphere that it blocked the sun, which caused the global cooling that ultimately doomed the dinos.
(Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)
The researchers estimate that up to 1,140 species will be doomed to extinction by the accumulated deforestation in the cerrado within this period—a number eight times larger than all species registered as extinct in the world today.
(Species native to Brazil savanna likely to face extinction, Agência Brasil)
I write to you, encompassed by peril and ignorant whether I am ever doomed to see again dear England and the dearer friends that inhabit it.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The pile of cuffs grew into a mountain, and Martin knew that he was doomed to toil for a thousand years to pay for them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Once more the little room, with its open corner cupboard, and its square-backed chairs, and its angular little staircase leading to the room above, and its three peacock's feathers displayed over the mantelpiece—I remember wondering when I first went in, what that peacock would have thought if he had known what his finery was doomed to come to—fades from before me, and I nod, and sleep.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
