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FOREDOOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foredoom mean? 

FOREDOOM (verb)
  The verb FOREDOOM has 1 sense:

1. doom beforehandplay

  Familiarity information: FOREDOOM used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOREDOOM (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they foredoom  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it foredooms  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: foredoomed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: foredoomed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: foredooming  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Doom beforehand

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "foredoom" is one way to...):

condemn; doom; sentence (pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody


 Context examples 


But he was foredoomed, and he went down with the she-wolf tearing savagely at his throat, and with other teeth fixed everywhere upon him, devouring him alive, before ever his last struggles ceased or his last damage had been wrought.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He was unaware of her gaze, and she watched him intently, speculating fancifully about the strange warp of soul that led him, a young man with signal powers, to fritter away his time on the writing of stories and poems foredoomed to mediocrity and failure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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