26984 words

doom

4 definitions • 7 examples
1
death, destruction, or any very bad situation that cannot be avoided:

Examples:

A sense of doom hung over the entire country.
doom and gloom The newspapers are always full of doom and gloom (= bad news and unhappiness) these days.
2
to make someone or something certain to do or experience something unpleasant, or to make something bad certain to happen:

Examples:

[ + to infinitive ] Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past?
doom someone/something to something Mounting debts doomed the factory to closure.
3
death, destruction, or any very bad situation that cannot be avoided:

Examples:

A sense of doom hung over the entire country.
4
to be the certain cause of someone or something having a bad end, esp. to die or to fail:

Examples:

The effort is doomed to failure.
He was doomed to be a one-term president like Jimmy Carter.

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