I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a doomed attempt (= certain to fail, and causing something very bad to happen )
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His attempt to reach the Pole was doomed from the beginning.
be doomed to disappointment (= be sure to be disappointed )
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If you expect too much, you will be doomed to disappointment.
be doomed to failure (= be certain to fail )
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The rebellion was doomed to failure from the start.
doom and gloom (= when there seems no hope )
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The picture is not all doom and gloom - some tourist areas are still drawing in the crowds.
harbingers of doom
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These birds are considered to be harbingers of doom .
impending danger/doom/death/disaster etc
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She had a sense of impending disaster.
prophet of doom/disaster (= someone who says that bad things will happen )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
extinction
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Over the period since 1945 as a whole, other beasts proved mammoths - of elephantine size but doomed to extinction .
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Under emancipation, the Negro was thought to be doomed to extinction .
failure
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In aquarium conditions such attempts are usually doomed to failure due to bacteria attacking the severed portions before the wounds heal.
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Any attempt to legislate goodwill in the market-place is doomed to failure .
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Even so, such alliances are, in the long run, doomed to failure .
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It was clear that any straight forward attempt to build the maximum floor area on the site would be doomed to failure .
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Another airborne bid for peace that Churchill disapproved of, likewise doomed to failure .
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It was now obvious that repeated military efforts by a single state were doomed to failure .
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And yet it looks doomed to failure , thwarted by a United States-led opposition.
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The union quest to preserve the rights and prerogatives of unskilled labor are doomed to failure .
start
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Any individual initiative against them is doomed from the start .
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But this attempt to carry on as though nothing had happened was doomed from the start .
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In truth, it was doomed from the very start .
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I think that record was doomed from the start .
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The council tax is doomed from the start .
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Things weren't good - perhaps the film was doomed from the start .
■ VERB
seem
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In this climate Minitel seems doomed .
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Yet, any critical attempt to reduce to discursive terms the emotional and poetic appeal of the film seems doomed to failure.
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When Lord Leverhulme abandoned Lewis, the crofting villages seemed doomed to a steady decline and eventual extinction.
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Now the Local, depleted, seemed to be doomed , because it needed the votes of the crossovers and scabs.
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Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities.
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Sable Island seems doomed to wash away, and this pale, pretty dune sparrow will go with it.
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The beeches, in the absence of recruits to replace plants dying of old age, seem doomed .
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It might seem that adolescents are doomed for ever to be ideological social critics.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The threat of a costly legal battle doomed the proposal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All have been doomed to failure.
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But this attempt to carry on as though nothing had happened was doomed from the start.
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Even those you thought were doomed.
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Half of us are ruthless and the other half are doomed.
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None of this means that Gore is doomed.
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They had felt she was doomed from the beginning.
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Yet in the longer term a regime resting upon the narrowing social base of the landowning nobility was doomed.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
impending
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And my pounding heart served to give me a feeling of impending doom .
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Thomas looked over the marshlands which showed no sign of impending doom .
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He has already received warnings of his own impending doom so is lost in his own thoughts, fears and anxieties.
■ VERB
meet
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I lit a Gauloise as the bell went and prepared to meet my doom .
spell
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One false move in the conduct of the attack will spell certain doom for White.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, given the doom and gloom already surrounding the earliest silent movies, maybe he wasn't joking at all.
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ElijahA strange man who prophesies doom for the Pequod.
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His religion is as much as anything the regression to a past of obedience, disobedience, sin and doom .
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I am not going to intrude like the voice of doom , commenting on her choices, her motives, her failings.
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In giving her the chance to shine in front of an appreciative Tory audience Heath probably sealed his own doom .
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No one wants to be the bearer of bad tidings, or the herald of impending doom .
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There was silence for a moment or two and then, like the voice of doom , Frau Nordern spoke again.
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When, how-ever, Pentheus only heaped insults and threats upon him, Dionysus left him to his doom .