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doom

1 verb
     
doom1 [transitive usually passive]
to make someone or something certain to fail, die, be destroyed etc
be doomed to failure/defeat/extinction etc
Many species are doomed to extinction.
be doomed to do something
We are all doomed to die in the end.
—doomed adjective:
passengers on the doomed flight
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