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单词 foredoom
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Definition of foredoom in English:

foredoom

verb fɔːˈduːmfɔrˈdum
[with object]
  • Condemn beforehand to certain failure or destruction.

    预先就注定会(失败,毁灭)

    the policy is foredoomed to failure

    这项政策注定会失败。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One must therefore reject the notion that an argument for celibacy is a futile gesture, foredoomed to failure.
    • Of course, the gaining of this knowledge foredooms the recipient to an eternal and compulsive lust for more.
    • But to redefine fundamentals so endowment policies are now foredoomed to underperform equity markets is not in investors' interests and is arguably no business of the FSA.
    • The Confederacy was probably foredoomed at its birth.
    • Most ‘premarital counseling’ is too short and surface-level to change the interpersonal ineptness and emotional deafness that foredooms millions of marriages to failure.
    • The persistent hallucination of an imaginary person foredooms a gray future for which she has neither map nor compass.
    • Perhaps the most visible impact of this process of routinisation is a lack of sensitivity and engagement that foredooms many programmes to failure.
    • A car bomb was foredoomed to failure, since winding security roads had been set up outside the gate of the base, and the US military is ready for that sort of attack.
    • Blixen's repeated attempts to establish a coffee plantation were foredoomed because neither the soil nor the altitude was right for such a venture.
    • The state's intelligence mechanisms are constrained by a larger structural and ideological environment and by the inherent irrationality of a foreign policy which foredooms any effort to base action on informed insight to a chimera.
    • Biology is no guarantee of a happy parental experience, and adoption doesn't foredoom one to an unhappy experience.
    • Some texts say that God wants everyone to be saved, while others say that God foredooms people to damnation.
    • For the strident opposition to gun ownership that characterizes the antigun lobby foredooms the cooperation that is essential if better controls are to be enacted and obeyed.
    • It is one thing to say that the population pressures may harm some human individuals; it is a very different thing indeed to say that they foredoom to failure all devices for improving the lot of the great mass of mankind.
    • So the program is foredoomed from the start.
    • To require the accused to show that the conduct of his or her defence was prejudiced would foredoom any application for even the most modest remedy where the material has not been produced.
    • Inadequate preparation results in incompetent workmanship and that foredooms one to failure.
    • Now what are the chief objections to modern science, which foredoom it to failure and justify Occultism in decrying it?
    • The attempt to resurrect capitalism in Russia foredooms it to the role of a second-rate power.
    • Being outgunned need not foredoom you to being outfought.
    Synonyms
    ill-fated, doomed, blighted, ill-omened, foredoomed, infelicitous

Rhymes

abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom

Definition of foredoom in US English:

foredoom

verbfôrˈdo͞omfɔrˈdum
[with object]usually be foredoomed
  • Condemn beforehand to certain failure or destruction.

    预先就注定会(失败,毁灭)

    the policy is foredoomed to failure

    这项政策注定会失败。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Confederacy was probably foredoomed at its birth.
    • Inadequate preparation results in incompetent workmanship and that foredooms one to failure.
    • Perhaps the most visible impact of this process of routinisation is a lack of sensitivity and engagement that foredooms many programmes to failure.
    • One must therefore reject the notion that an argument for celibacy is a futile gesture, foredoomed to failure.
    • Now what are the chief objections to modern science, which foredoom it to failure and justify Occultism in decrying it?
    • To require the accused to show that the conduct of his or her defence was prejudiced would foredoom any application for even the most modest remedy where the material has not been produced.
    • It is one thing to say that the population pressures may harm some human individuals; it is a very different thing indeed to say that they foredoom to failure all devices for improving the lot of the great mass of mankind.
    • Being outgunned need not foredoom you to being outfought.
    • Biology is no guarantee of a happy parental experience, and adoption doesn't foredoom one to an unhappy experience.
    • A car bomb was foredoomed to failure, since winding security roads had been set up outside the gate of the base, and the US military is ready for that sort of attack.
    • So the program is foredoomed from the start.
    • The attempt to resurrect capitalism in Russia foredooms it to the role of a second-rate power.
    • For the strident opposition to gun ownership that characterizes the antigun lobby foredooms the cooperation that is essential if better controls are to be enacted and obeyed.
    • The persistent hallucination of an imaginary person foredooms a gray future for which she has neither map nor compass.
    • The state's intelligence mechanisms are constrained by a larger structural and ideological environment and by the inherent irrationality of a foreign policy which foredooms any effort to base action on informed insight to a chimera.
    • Some texts say that God wants everyone to be saved, while others say that God foredooms people to damnation.
    • Of course, the gaining of this knowledge foredooms the recipient to an eternal and compulsive lust for more.
    • But to redefine fundamentals so endowment policies are now foredoomed to underperform equity markets is not in investors' interests and is arguably no business of the FSA.
    • Most ‘premarital counseling’ is too short and surface-level to change the interpersonal ineptness and emotional deafness that foredooms millions of marriages to failure.
    • Blixen's repeated attempts to establish a coffee plantation were foredoomed because neither the soil nor the altitude was right for such a venture.
    Synonyms
    ill-fated, doomed, blighted, ill-omened, foredoomed, infelicitous
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