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doom English

Meaning doom meaning

What does doom mean?
Definitions in simple English

doom Noun

— Doom is death, destruction, or tragedy. — Someone's doom is their tragic or horrible ending, such as their death. The hiker fell to his doom after he lost his grip.

doom

— verb (= destine, designate) decree or designate beforehand She was destined to become a great pianist — noun (= end of the world) an unpleasant or disastrous destiny everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world — verb make certain of the failure or destruction of This decision will doom me to lose my position — verb (= sentence, condemn) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law He was condemned to ten years in prison

Synonyms doom synonyms

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doom English » English

fate condemn sentence destiny fortune death downfall destine ruin predestination judgement destruction convict wreck perdition lot judge doomsday denounce demise damn condemnation verdict termination reprobate predestine loss kismet judgment fall end of the world end dying designate decree decline decease day of reckoning curse call adjudicate adjudge written judgment write-off windup wastage ultimate toll tail swear

Conjugation doom conjugation

How do you conjugate doom?

doom · verb

Examples doom examples

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Simple sentences

Tom is expecting near crack of doom.
His doom is sealed.
What would driving a car be without doom metal?
I am thy father's spirit; doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, and, for the day, confin'd to waste in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purg'd away.
This is one of the signs of weakness and the impending doom of imperialism.

Movie subtitles

Black Larson swept on to impending doom.
The whole world is seething, nations are crashing to their doom and he'll be along presently.
This vision was so vivid and so moving that I determined to gather together all things of beauty and culture that I could and preserve them here against the doom toward which the world is rushing.
You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe. I was petrified.
A cold wind went across my heart just then- a feeling of doom.
This is the voice of doom calling.
Fiery furnaces of doom.
The doom is yours, not mine.
It looks like our doom!
The tender love I bear Your Grace, my lord. makes me most forward in this noble presence to doom the offenders. Whosoe'er they be, I say they have deserved death.
Condone anarchism in the arts and you seal the doom of France.
Who's to doom. when the judge himself is dragged before the bar?
Because I do not have the bowels to slaughter thee. and save the whole ship's company from being dragged to doom.
What croakings of doom have you today?
You're sending me to my doom, eh?
No more pleasant doom ever faced one of the queen's men.
Englishmen, do you still await your doom in your stupid, stuffy little clubs?
Ever since this thing started, I've been the voice of doom about the project.
The silence, an eerie foretelling of the destruction to come at one o'clock, the hour of doom!
This is the voice of doom.
Well? What croakings of doom have you today?
Sorry, I didn't mean to be all doom and gloom.
You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe.
Drifting to your doom Drifting to your doom.
Sometimes, I have a feeling of doom.
This bloody talk of doom.
What do you do besides lure men to their doom on the 20th Century Limited?
A forest of thorns shall be his tomb, borne through the skies on a fog of doom!
Queer how I misinterpreted the designation of doom.
There's a sense of doom, crises.
Your prophesy our doom.?

News and current affairs

Will this spell doom for developing countries?
We would do well to recall how, at the beginning of the 1990's, book after book was still being written urging US and European corporations to imitate Japan or face certain doom.
In fact, the election had several salutary effects - beyond showing that unbridled corporate spending could not buy an election, and that demographic changes in the United States may doom Republican extremism.
Obsession with doom-and-gloom scenarios distracts us from the real global threats.
This, in turn, would further erode banks' balance sheets and constrain credit creation - the sovereign-bank doom loop that we have heard so much about in recent years.
The doom-mongers lost.
But, while celebrity activists warn about the impending doom posed by climate change, a more realistic view is offered by these cities' ability to cope.
Boom and doom pundits are the most reliable over-claimers.
Gradually, awareness is setting in that global warming is not just a gloom and doom fantasy.
So it's not all gloom and doom.
Because the North possesses the capacity, but not the political will, to implement the CPA, and the South has the will but not the capacity, continued disengagement by the international community might doom the prospects for peace.
Unfortunately, this is difficult to do, because boom times make people who warn of risks seems like doom mongers.
It was the old doom-and-gloom mathematics of Thomas Malthus at work: population shoots up geometrically while food production lags behind.
Doom, a popular violent videogame, was a favorite of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the teenage Columbine High School murderers.
Developing countries, it is said, are headed for strong growth, regardless of the doom and gloom that has returned to Europe and the United States.
Moreover, some countries' industrial composition and low rates of productivity growth mean that a fixed exchange rate would doom them to increasingly large trade deficits.
He warned that Iranian intransigence would doom the talks to failure, raising the prospects of yet another military confrontation in the Middle East.
In Europe, Fukushima prompted a media blitz of gloom and doom over nuclear energy.
The shortcomings of Sharia, however serious, need not doom Islamic law in a society where Christians and traditional believers roughly equal Muslims in number.
It is striking that even amid all the doom and gloom assailing world markets, there is no fear of a recession in India.
Forgetting that history might doom China to repeat the mistakes of the past; but, for better or worse, it might also ease constraints and set its leaders free.
Much hand-wringing followed, with single mothers (never, at that time, single fathers) cast as harbingers of doom for core American values.

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