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doom

noun

1 doom

An unpleasant or disastrous destiny:
— Everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it.

synonyms: day of reckoning, doomsday, end of the world.

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; ... show more

Roget 601: involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination.    necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion etc. ... show more

Roget 360: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, ... show more

Roget 67: end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, ... show more

Dutch: ondergang

verb

1 doom

Decree or designate beforehand.

synonyms: designate, destine, fate.

Roget 601: lie under a necessity; befated, be doomed, be destined &c., in for, under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate etc. n.. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to help.    ... show more

Roget 152: impend; hang over, lie over; threaten, loom, await, come on, approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain; predestine, doom, have in store for.    ... show more

Dutch: aanwijzen, bestemmen, reserveren, toebedenken, toedenken, uittrekken

2 doom

Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law.

synonyms: condemn, sentence.

Roget 971: condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; ... show more

Roget 480: judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind.    deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, ... show more

Dutch: berechten, rechtspreken, veroordelen, vonnissen

3 doom

Make certain of the failure or destruction of.


Moby thesaurus: Day of Judgment, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Judgment Day, Z, abuse, act on, action, afflict, aggrieve, anathematize, anathematizing, annihilation, apodosis, appoint, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, attaint, award ... show more.

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