Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: doomed
IPA transcription: [d'umd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: doomed
    Meaning: marked for certain death; "the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: doomed, lost
    Meaning: people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice"
Usage examples
  • Doomed by inexorable fate
  • Doomed to impermanence and transiency
  • "We must be doomed!" cried Mr. Parker.
  • There was something rite-like in these movements of the doomed soldier.
  • Finally, the chest of the doomed soldier began to heave with a strained motion.
  • This, reader, is an unvarnished narrative of one doomed by the laws of the Southern States to be a slave.
  • I am flying to escape death at their hands, and am thus doomed to be a wanderer on the face of the earth.
  • If doomed to live within the thickest of London smoke you would surely say that that would be your chosen spot.
  • Hundreds of police, regiments of soldiers and scores of volunteers were sent into the doomed district to warn the people to flee.
  • Shaken by earthquake, swept by flames, the water supply cut off by the breaking of the mains, the authorities of the doomed city for a time stood appalled.