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Certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
“To repay Arthur for once saving his life, Ford wants Arthur to join him as he flees the doomed planet.”
Fated or inevitable (that something happens or is the case)
Suggestive of bad luck or misfortune
At the point of death or losing one's life
Critical, serious, or very important in nature, usually in a negative sense
Not properly planned or thought through
(of a hope) Sincere, but unlikely to be fulfilled
Dying out, or at risk of dying out (completely)
Likely to have an undesirable outcome, which one cannot change or escape from
Limited in number
Feeling or causing despair
Wrongly or badly planned or judged, typically because of faulty understanding
Culpable of or responsible for a specified wrongdoing
Decided in advance
Without hope of recovery
Past tense for to consign or destine someone to a given fate, typically undesirable
“It is good to be reminded that one failure, even if it is the biggest one we can conceive, does not of itself doom us to a life of failure.”
Past tense for to penalize someone for a punishable offense
Past tense for to invoke or use a (magical) curse against
Past tense for forbid, especially by law
Past tense for to issue, establish or apply as a charge, fine or penalty
Past tense for to declare (someone) to be guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law
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