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noun

fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.

ruin; death: to fall to one's doom.

a judgment, decision, or sentence, especially an unfavorable one: The judge pronounced the defendant's doom.

the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.

Obsolete. a statute, enactment, or legal judgment.

verb (used with object)

to destine, especially to an adverse fate.

to pronounce judgment against; condemn.

to ordain or fix as a sentence or fate.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English dome, dōm, Old English dōm judgment, law; cognate with Old Norse dōmr, Gothic dōms; compare Sanskrit dhā́man, Greek thémis law; see do¹, deem

Related forms

doom·y, adjective

pre·doom, verb (used with object)

self-doomed, adjective

Synonyms
1. See fate. 3. condemnation. 6. predestine.

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Why keeping your brilliant business idea a secret may doom it to failure.

However, the news is not all doom and gloom by a long shot.

Yet contrary to repeated forecasts of doom from orthodox economists, the economy is roaring.

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Why keeping your brilliant business idea a secret may doom it to failure.

However, the news is not all doom and gloom by a long shot.

Yet contrary to repeated forecasts of doom from orthodox economists, the economy is roaring.

Japanese directors are considered masters at using silence and empty spaces to create an impending sense of doom and dread.

To do nothing is to doom a decent but egocentric species to extinction.

Doom for the grim, but realistic, picture she paints of reefs suffering worldwide.

Amphibians are lured by a flesh-eating ground beetle larva to their doom.

My doom and gloom colleagues really brought me down.

America's future looks bright, while if it falls, doom beckons.

But a rise in temperature can spell doom for native peoples and the caribou.

When economic conditions changed, risk managers would see that the likelihood of financial doom increased.

But their eating habits don't doom them to dull lives.

But even he thought constructing a monster truck of doom crossed a.

They offered dispirited accounts of the discussion and foretold certain doom.

If the overheating core was not cooled, it could meltdown and cause a thermal explosion that would doom the ship.

Many scientists are highly motivated to disregard or selectively reinterpret negative results that could doom their careers.

Some newborn planets fling their sibling planets to a fiery doom or into the depths of space.

They combine the reckless chaos of the roads with the certain doom of airline disaster.

English departments refuse to change their culture despite certain doom.

But thanks to climate change, its water is becoming warmer, and that could spell doom for some of the fish.

Let's try and keep this stuff reasonable and not scream headlines of doom.

Magnestick will stop your child from slipping out of ski chairlifts and hurtling down the mountainside to certain rocky doom.

One mistake from you will not spell doom for your students.

Water often collected on and covered the asphalt, luring thirsty animals to their doom.

Of course this strategy will doom the projects to failure.

Russian officials and cosmonauts say leaving the international space station empty could doom the celestial outpost.

But life will go on after all of this and it isn't the doom and gloom you so easily hold tightly to your breast.

But the story of our ocean isn't all doom and gloom.

Environmental groups who cry doom and gloom to keep donations flowing only hurt their credibility.

And then there are the industries where doom lurks around every corner.

Painting doom and gloom with such a broad brush does not make it so.

Yes, addiction changes the brain but this does not doom people to use drugs forever.

If one major event goes bust it could spell doom for all the others.

It was impending doom then and it's impending doom now.

Telling the population of impending doom would cause violence, and lots of it.

And if that weren't enough to doom the concept, the unholy alliance nuclear energy has with nuclear weapons.

Save the apocalyptic scenarios of doom and gloom for the uneducated.

Again, these doom and gloom ideas have been around for centuries and have never panned out.

Very small differences in reproductive levels can doom competing species, as the authors surely know.

The doom and gloom approach that is being force fed is what is so insulting.

Government subsidies for clean energy doom us to higher taxes and more waste.

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World English Dictionary

doom (duːm)

—n
1.	death or a terrible fate
2.	a judgment or decision
3.	(sometimes capital) another term for the Last Judgment

—vb
4.	(tr) to destine or condemn to death or a terrible fate

[Old English dōm; related to Old Norse dōmr judgment, Gothic dōms sentence, Old High German tuom condition, Greek thomos crowd, Sanskrit dhāman custom; see do¹, deem, deed, -dom]

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Word Origin & History

doom

O.E. dom "law, judgment, condemnation," from P.Gmc. *domaz, from PIE root *dhe- (cf. Skt. dhaman- "law," Gk. themis "law," Lith. dome "attention"), lit. "to set, put" (see factitious). A book of laws in O.E. was a dombec. Modern sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" is c.1600,

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from the finality of the Christian Judgment Day. Related: Doomed.

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DOOM definition

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A simulated 3D moster-hunting action game for IBM PCs, created and published by id Software. The original press release was dated January 1993. A cut-down shareware version v1.0 was released on 10 December 1993 and again with some bug-fixes, as v1.4 in June 1994.
DOOM is similar to Wolfenstein 3d (id Software, Apogee) but has better texture mapping; walls can be at any angle, of any thickness and have windows; lighting can fade into the distance or come from point sources; floors and ceilings can be of any height; many surfaces are animated; up to four players can play over a network or two by serial link; it has a high frame rate (comparable to TV on a 486/33); DOOM isn't just a collection of connected closed rooms like Wolfenstein but sounds can travel anywhere and alert monsters of your approach.
The shareware version is available from these sites: Cactus (ftp://cactus.org/pub/IHHD/multi-player/), Manitoba (ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/pub/doom/), UK (ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/games/id/), South Africa (ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/msdos/games/id/), UWP ftp (ftp://archive.uwp.edu/pub/msdos/games/id/), UWP http (http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/msdos/games/id/), Finland (ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msdos/games/id), Washington (ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/games/doom).
A FAQ by Hank Leukart: UWP (ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/msdos/games/id/home-brew/doom), Washington (ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/games/doomstuff). FAQ on WWW (http://venom.st.hmc.edu/~tkelly/doomfaq/intro.html). Other links (http://gamesdomain.co.uk/descript/doom.html).
Usenet newsgroups: news:rec.games.computer.doom.announce, news:rec.games.computer.doom.editing, news:rec.games.computer.doom.help, news:rec.games.computer.doom.misc, news:rec.games.computer.doom.playing, news:alt.games.doom, news:comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, news:comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce, news:comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc.
Mailing List: ("sub DOOML" in the message body, no subject).
Telephone: +44 (1222) 362 361 - the UK's first multi-player DOOM and games server.
(1994-12-14)

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