foredoom
/fɔːˈduːm//ˈfɔːduːm/
foredoom noun: a doom that is predicted; destiny.
Noun
foredoom (uncountable)
Verb
foredoom (third-person singular simple present foredooms, present participle foredooming, simple past and past participle foredoomed)
- To predestine to a doom.
- Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- [W]hen to the inherent difficulties of so delicate and nice a social operation were added the spite and hate of conflict, the hell of war; when suspicion and cruelty were rife, and gaunt Hunger wept beside Bereavement,—in such a case, the work of any instrument of social regeneration was in large...1903 April 18, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC
Examples of foredoom in a sentence
- [O]ne feels that no community can really be as purged of peccant humours as the typical American has for the most part found itself foredoomed to look.1906 August, Henry James, “Baltimore”, in The American Scene, London: Chapman and Hall, published 30 January 1907, →OCLC, section II, page...
- To search for Tara of Helium in the vast, dim labyrinth of the pits of O-Tar seemed to the Gatholian a hopeless quest, foredoomed to failure.1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010:
- 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.1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, The Folio Society, published 2010, page 35:
Synonyms of foredoom
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Forms of foredoom
| third-person singular present | foredooms |
|---|---|
| present participle | foredooming |
| past participle | foredoomed |
| past | foredoomed |
Origin of foredoom
From fore- + doom. Compare foredeem.
Words that rhyme with foredoom
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- gloom
- home
- presume
- whom
- womb
- resume
- tomb
- abloom
- legume
- loom
- rheum
- backroom
- boardroom
- combe
- coomb
- entomb
- enwomb
- exhume
- flume
- grume
- kaboom
- Khartoum
- neume
- packing room
- shroom
- sloom
- subsume
- absume
- addoom
- anteroom
- barroom
- bitume
- brume
- chum
- cloom
- cwm
- desume
- fixing room
- fwoom
- glume
- illume
- khoum
- locker room
- raying room
- simoom
- spume
- thoom
- toom
Questions about foredoom
- What does foredoom mean?
- Foredoom means a doom that is predicted; destiny.
- How do you use foredoom in a sentence?
- [O]ne feels that no community can really be as purged of peccant humours as the typical American has for the most part found itself foredoomed to look.
- What part of speech is foredoom?
- Foredoom can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce foredoom?
- Foredoom is pronounced /ˈfɔːduːm/ (UK).
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