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doom

  [doom]
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–noun
1. fate or destiny, esp. 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, esp. 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, esp. to an adverse fate.
7. to pronounce judgment against; condemn.
8. to ordain or fix as a sentence or fate.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME dome, dōm, OE dōm judgment, law; c. ON dōmr, Goth dōms; cf. Skt dhman, Gk thémis law; see do 1 , deem

Related forms:
doomy, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See fate. 3. condemnation. 6. predestine.
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doom   (dōōm)   
n.  

  1. Inevitable destruction or ruin.

  2. Fate, especially a tragic or ruinous one.

  3. A decision or judgment, especially an official condemnation to a severe penalty.

  4. Judgment Day.

  5. A statute or ordinance, especially one in force in Anglo-Saxon England.

tr.v.   doomed, doom·ing, dooms

  1. To condemn to ruination or death. See Synonyms at condemn.

  2. To destine to an unhappy end.


[Middle English dom, from Old English dōm, judgment; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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