goner

🇺🇸 /ˈɡɔːnər/ 🇬🇧 /ˈɡɒnə(r)/
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noun
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A person or thing that is very likely to fail, be destroyed, or die.

After the accident, he was a goner, but the doctors managed to save him.

translation

n. A person or thing that is very likely to fail, be destroyed, or die.

Word Forms

Plural goners