'DOOM' definitions:
Definition of 'doom'
(from WordNet)
noun
An unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world" [syn: doom, doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the world]
verb
Decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: destine, fate, doom, designate]
verb
Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison" [syn: sentence, condemn, doom]
verb
Make certain of the failure or destruction of; "This decision will doom me to lose my position"
Definition of 'Doom'
From: GCIDE
- Doom \Doom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dooming.]
- 1. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death. [1913 Webster]
- Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. [1913 Webster]
- Have I tongue to doom my brother's death? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England] --J. Pickering. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate. [1913 Webster]
- A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Doom'
From: GCIDE
- Doom \Doom\ (d[=oo]m), n. [As. d[=o]m; akin to OS. d[=o]m, OHG. tuom, Dan. & Sw. dom, Icel. d[=o]mr, Goth. d[=o]ms, Gr. qe`mis law; fr. the root of E. do, v. t. [root]65. See Do, v. t., and cf. Deem, -dom.]
- 1. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. [1913 Webster]
- The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster]
- Now against himself he sounds this doom. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty. [1913 Webster]
- Ere Hector meets his doom. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- And homely household task shall be her doom. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Ruin; death. [1913 Webster]
- This is the day of doom for Bassianus. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom. --Fairfax.
- Syn: Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot; ruin; destruction. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'doom'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- act on,
- action,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- anathematize,
- anathematizing,
- annihilation,
- apodosis,
- appoint,
- appointed lot,
- astral influences,
- astrology,
- attaint,
- award,
- bane,
- befoul,
- bewitch,
- biological death,
- blacklist,
- blight,
- book of fate,
- bring home to,
- calamity,
- cast into hell,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- censure,
- cessation,
- cessation of life,
- circumstance,
- clinical death,
- coda,
- conclusion,
- condemn,
- condemn to hell,
- condemnation,
- consideration,
- consign to hell,
- constellation,
- consummation,
- convict,
- conviction,
- corrupt,
- crack of doom,
- crossing the bar,
- crucify,
- culmination,
- cup,
- curse,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- damage,
- damn,
- damnation,
- day of doom,
- Day of Judgment,
- death,
- death knell,
- death sentence,
- death warrant,
- deathblow,
- debt of nature,
- decease,
- decision,
- decree,
- defile,
- deliverance,
- demise,
- denouement,
- denounce,
- denouncement,
- denunciate,
- denunciation,
- departure,
- deprave,
- despoil,
- destinate,
- destination,
- destine,
- destiny,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- determination,
- devote,
- diagnosis,
- dictum,
- dies funestis,
- disadvantage,
- disaster,
- disserve,
- dissolution,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doom to perdition,
- doomsday,
- downfall,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- effect,
- end,
- end of life,
- end point,
- ending,
- envenom,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- eternal rest,
- excommunicate,
- excommunication,
- exit,
- expiration,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- fatality,
- fate,
- final solution,
- final summons,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- find,
- find against,
- find for,
- find guilty,
- finding,
- finger of death,
- finis,
- finish,
- foredoom,
- fortune,
- Friday,
- Friday the thirteenth,
- future,
- get into trouble,
- goal,
- going,
- going off,
- grave,
- guilty verdict,
- hand of death,
- harass,
- harm,
- hex,
- hurt,
- ides of March,
- impair,
- inevitability,
- infect,
- injure,
- izzard,
- jaws of death,
- jinx,
- judgment,
- Judgment Day,
- karma,
- kismet,
- knell,
- last,
- last breath,
- last days,
- last debt,
- last gasp,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- leaving life,
- loss of life,
- lot,
- making an end,
- maltreat,
- mark,
- menace,
- mistreat,
- moira,
- molest,
- omega,
- ordain,
- order,
- outrage,
- parting,
- pass judgment,
- pass sentence,
- pass sentence on,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- payoff,
- penalize,
- period,
- perishing,
- peroration,
- persecute,
- planets,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- portion,
- precedent,
- prejudice,
- prognosis,
- pronounce,
- pronounce judgment,
- pronounce on,
- pronounce sentence,
- pronouncement,
- proscribe,
- proscription,
- quietus,
- rap,
- release,
- report,
- resolution,
- rest,
- resting place,
- return a verdict,
- reward,
- ruin,
- rule,
- ruling,
- savage,
- scathe,
- sentence,
- sentence of death,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- sleep,
- somatic death,
- stars,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- summons of death,
- swan song,
- taint,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- the Judgment,
- threaten,
- torment,
- torture,
- tragedy,
- trump of doom,
- unlucky day,
- utter a judgment,
- verdict,
- verdict of guilty,
- violate,
- weird,
- wheel of fortune,
- will of Heaven,
- windup,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong,
- Z
Acronyms for 'doom'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Decentralised Object Orientated Machine