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doom

[doom]
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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Dooming is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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

doom·y, adjective
pre·doom, verb (used with object)
self-doomed, adjective


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

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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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