Doom

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  • noun. Inevitable destruction or ruin.
  • noun. A decision or judgment, especially an official condemnation to a severe penalty.
  • noun. Judgment Day.
  • noun. A statute or ordinance, especially one in force in Anglo-Saxon England.
  • transitive verb. To condemn to ruination or death.
  • transitive verb. To cause to come to an inevitable bad end; destine to end badly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To judge; form a judgment upon.
  • To condemn to punishment; consign by a decree or sentence; pronounce sentence or judgment on; destine: as, a criminal doomed to death; we are doomed to suffer for our errors.
  • To ordain as a penalty; decree.
  • To tax by estimate or at discretion, as on the failure of a taxpayer to make a statement of his taxable property.
  • noun. Judgment or decision; specifically, a decision determining fate or fortune; fateful decision or decree: originally in a neutral sense, but now generally implying an adverse decision; as, the court pronounced doom upon the culprits; to fall by doom of battle.
  • noun. Fate decreed or determined; fixed fortune; irrevocable destiny.
  • noun. Judgment or opinion; discernment.
  • noun. The last judgment. See doomsday.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
  • noun. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
  • noun. Ruin; death.
  • noun. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
  • transitive verb. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
  • transitive verb. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence.
  • transitive verb. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  • transitive verb. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
  • transitive verb. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A law.
  • noun. A judgment or decision
  • noun. A sentence or penalty for an illegality or type of illegality.
  • noun. Death; an adverse or terrible fate, end.
  • noun. Destiny, especially adverse.
  • noun. An impending severe problem or danger that seems inevitable.
  • noun. A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
  • noun. The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation of it.
  • verb. To condemn to a terrible fate or outcome
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
  • verb. make certain of the failure or destruction of
  • verb. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
  • verb. decree or designate beforehand
  • Word Usage
    "III. i.185 (151,7) [I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom] _To fly his doom_, used for _by flying_, or _in flying_, is a gallicism."
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    assure  destiny  ensure  fate  guarantee  
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