foredoom
English
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- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɔːduːm/ (noun), IPA(key): /fɔːˈduːm/ (verb)
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foredoom (third-person singular simple present foredooms, present participle foredooming, simple past and past participle foredoomed)
- (transitive) To predestine to a doom.
- Dryden
- Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.
- 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, The Folio Society, published 2010, page 35:
- They appeared, upon the surface, to possess all the qualities which were likely to recommend them to the fashionable society of the day; but their mission was foredoomed to failure.
- Dryden
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