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doom

[doom]
–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


doomy, adjective


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