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Doom   /dum/   Listen
noun
Doom  n.  
1.
Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. "The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens." "Now against himself he sounds this doom."
2.
That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty. "Ere Hector meets his doom." "And homely household task shall be her doom."
3.
Ruin; death. "This is the day of doom for Bassianus."
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."
Synonyms: Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot; ruin; destruction.


verb
Doom  v. t.  (past & past part. doomed; pres. part. dooming)  
1.
To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. (Obs.)
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."
3.
To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. "Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?"
4.
To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. (New England)
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."





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"Doom" Quotes from Famous Books



... cat, every rat, every mouse, every louse, has a thousand year's to burn. Tell Mart the hounds of hell must burn!" Her voice carried a terrible condemnation far beyond the meaning of the words themselves. It was as if she were pronouncing the doom of the whole world. "Every cat, every rat, every ...
— The Trail of the White Mule • B. M. Bower
... sensitive wit imagine that, in a vast metropolis like London, his chance of securing an appropriate lodging and a confiding landlady is at all doubtful. He might lodge safe from the past, certain of the future, till the crash of doom. I shall be met by Ferguson's case. Ferguson I knew well, and I respected him. But he had a most unfortunate countenance. It was a very solemn, but by no means a solvent face; and yet he had a manner with him too, and his language was choice, if not ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... had just fallen, and the scene on the mountains was about to open. The house had been darkened, and as the clear, quiet, unforced tone of Rip, yielding, not remonstrating, to the doom that we all knew and he did not, fell upon the hushed audience, the eyes of men and women were full of tears; while the orchestra murmured, mezzo voce, during the storm within and without the house, the tenderly pathetic melody ...
— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis
... cried. 'Is it to tell me that if I do not give my love where my honor tells me it should not be given, I must surely die! So, then, let it be. I accept the doom. One year ago, I would have cheerfully fought in the arena for your faintest smile. Now I would rather die there than have your ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... canopy high overhead; and in chorus with the cries of anguish from below, and the triumphant chatter of the monkey, came the screams of Warruk terror-striken and helpless, rushing headlong to certain doom. ...
— The Black Phantom • Leo Edward Miller


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