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Doom

//duːm// name, noun, phrase, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the progenitor of the genre.

    "Origin […] have used the canvas of a Doom-like first-person 3-D engine to paint a master work of their own in this comic-book action game."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Doom. alt-of, alternative
Noun
  1. 1
    Destiny, especially terrible. countable, uncountable

    "This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her doom,"

  2. 2
    an unpleasant or disastrous destiny wordnet
  3. 3
    An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable. countable, uncountable

    "unlike Vincent, he wasn't quite taken in by the outbreak of hopefulness on all sides. After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of doom still hung undisturbed over the project."

  4. 4
    Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair. countable, uncountable

    "She halted her pacing steps as the ugly significance of Nicholas Caulfield's pending arrival washed over her. Ruin. Destitution. Doom settled like a heavy stone in her chest."

  5. 5
    A law. countable, obsolete

    ""What ye will not that other men should do unto you, that do ye not unto other men." "From this one doom," comments Alfred, "a man may bethink him how he should judge every one rightly: he needs no other doombook.""

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  1. 6
    A judgment or decision. countable, obsolete

    "And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom."

  2. 7
    A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour. countable, obsolete

    "The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens."

  3. 8
    Death. countable, uncountable

    "They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in."

  4. 9
    The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof. capitalized, countable, sometimes, uncountable
Phrase
  1. 1
    Initialism of didn't organize, only moved; used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "I tried to organize my stuff but just ended up making a big doom pile."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of doom (“didn't organize, only moved”). alt-of, alternative
Verb
  1. 1
    To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn. transitive

    "a criminal doomed to death"

  2. 2
    decree or designate beforehand wordnet
  3. 3
    To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.

    "A man of genius […] doomed to struggle with difficulties."

  4. 4
    make certain of the failure or destruction of wordnet
  5. 5
    To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. obsolete

    "And while we know not that the King of heaven hath not doomed this place our safe retreat"

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  1. 6
    pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law wordnet
  2. 7
    To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. obsolete

    "Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?"

  3. 8
    To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. New-England, archaic

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos. Cognates Compare Dutch doem (“condemnation, doom; judgement”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dom (“judgement”), Faroese and Icelandic dómur (“judgement”), Gothic 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃 (dōms, “insight, judgement”); also Ancient Greek θωμός (thōmós, “heap”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian ду́ма (dúma, “thought”), Polish duma (“pride”). Doublet of duma. See also deem.

Etymology 2

From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos. Cognates Compare Dutch doem (“condemnation, doom; judgement”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dom (“judgement”), Faroese and Icelandic dómur (“judgement”), Gothic 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃 (dōms, “insight, judgement”); also Ancient Greek θωμός (thōmós, “heap”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian ду́ма (dúma, “thought”), Polish duma (“pride”). Doublet of duma. See also deem.

Etymology 3

From doom.

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