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Doom Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Doom?
[n] an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"
[v] decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [v] pronounce a sentence on, in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison" Synonyms | Synonyms for Doom: condemn | day of reckoning | designate | destine | doomsday | fate | sentence Related Terms | Find terms related to Doom: abuse | act on | action | afflict | aggrieve | anathematize | anathematizing | annihilation | apodosis | appoint | appointed lot | astral influences | astrology | attaint | award | bane | befoul | bewitch | biological death | blacklist | blight | book of fate | bring home to | calamity | cast into hell | cataclysm | catastrophe | ceasing | censure | cessation | cessation of life | circumstance | clinical death | coda | conclusion | condemn | condemn to hell | condemnation | consideration | consign to hell | constellation | consummation | convict | conviction | corrupt | crack of doom | crossing the bar | crucify | culmination | cup | curse | curtain | curtains | damage | damn | damnation | day of doom | Day of Judgment | death | death knell | death sentence | death warrant | deathblow | debt of nature | decease | decision | decree | defile | deliverance | demise | denouement | denounce | denouncement | denunciate | denunciation | departure | deprave | despoil | destinate | destination | destine | destiny | destroy | destruction | determination | devote | diagnosis | dictum | dies funestis | disadvantage | disaster | disserve | dissolution | distress | do a mischief | do evil | do ill | do wrong | do wrong by | doom to perdition | doomsday | downfall | dying | ebb of life | effect | end | end of life | end point | ending | envenom | envoi | epilogue | eschatology | eternal rest | excommunicate | excommunication | exit | expiration | extinction | extinguishment | fatality | fate | final solution | final summons | final twitch | final words | finale | finality | find | find against | find for | find guilty | finding | finger of death | finis | finish | foredoom | fortune | Friday | Friday the thirteenth | future | get into trouble | goal | going | going off | grave | guilty verdict | hand of death | harass | harm | hex | hurt | ides of March | impair | inevitability | infect | injure | izzard | jaws of death | jinx | judgment | Judgment Day | karma | kismet | knell | last | last breath | last days | last debt | last gasp | last muster | last rest | last roundup | last sleep | last things | last trumpet | last words | latter end | leaving life | loss of life | lot | making an end | maltreat | mark | menace | mistreat | moira | molest | omega | ordain | order | outrage | parting | pass judgment | pass sentence | pass sentence on | passing | passing away | passing over | payoff | penalize | period | perishing | peroration | persecute | planets | play havoc with | play hob with | poison | pollute | portion | precedent | prejudice | prognosis | pronounce | pronounce judgment | pronounce on | pronounce sentence | pronouncement | proscribe | proscription | quietus | rap | release | report | resolution | rest | resting place | return a verdict | reward | ruin | rule | ruling | savage | scathe | sentence | sentence of death | shades of death | shadow of death | sleep | somatic death | stars | stoppage | stopping place | summons of death | swan song | taint | term | terminal | termination | terminus | the Judgment | threaten | torment | torture | tragedy | trump of doom | unlucky day | utter a judgment | verdict | verdict of guilty | violate | weird | wheel of fortune | will of Heaven | windup | wound | wreak havoc on | wrong | Z See Also | convict | court-martial | declare | destiny | fate | foredoom | ordain | reprobate Doom In Webster's Dictionary \Doom\, n. [As. d?m; akin to OS. d?m, OHG. tuom, Dan. & Sw.
dom, Icel. d?mr, Goth. d?ms, Gr. ? law; fr. the root of E.
do, v. t. ?. See {Do}, v. t., and cf. {Deem}, {-dom}.]
1. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
The first dooms of London provide especially the
recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. --J.
R. Green.
Now against himself he sounds this doom. --Shak.
2. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate,
esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
Ere Hector meets his doom. --Pope.
And homely household task shall be her doom.
--Dryden.
3. Ruin; death.
This is the day of doom for Bassianus. --Shak.
4. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination;
discernment; decision. [Obs.]
And there he learned of things and haps to come, To
give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.
--Fairfax.
Syn: Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot;
ruin; destruction.
\Doom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doomed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dooming}.] 1. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.] --Milton. 2. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death. Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. --Dryden. 3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. Have I tongue to doom my brother's death? --Shak. 4. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England] --J. Pickering. 5. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate. A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties. --Macaulay. |
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