doomed
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noun
1.
fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
2.
ruin; death: to fall to one's doom.
3.
a judgment, decision, or sentence, especially an unfavorable one: The judge pronounced the defendant's doom.
4.
the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.
5.
Obsolete. a statute, enactment, or legal judgment.
verb (used with object)
6.
to destine, especially to an adverse fate.
7.
to pronounce judgment against; condemn.
8.
to ordain or fix as a sentence or fate.
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doom (duːm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 | |
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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,
from the finality of the Christian Judgment Day. Related: Doomed.
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Example sentences
Popular statements as to the extreme poverty of expression to which primitive languages are doomed are simply myths.
However, considering its numerical dominance now, the company is not doomed.
But since no such housing exists, they are doomed to the slum.
The industry structure doomed the steel business in that era.
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