doom

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Destiny, especially terrible.

   • This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her doom,
   • "When should I expect him?" Roy said, resigned to his doom.
   • We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom.
2. 2

   An undesirable fate

   An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.

   • 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.
   • Chung was the first of its four picks in Round 2. His arrival might spell doom for Rodney Harrison.
3. 3

   Dread

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

   • 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.
   • Feeling doom, as we learned in the beautiful folk language of blacks who knew the truth of it, began with a single unexpected oddity — a redbird out of season, hail out of cloudless skies, dogs cowering under the house
   • I'm taking medications every day; never thinking I would be spiraling into nothing but a nightmare that made me feel doom.
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   1. 4

      A law.

      • "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."
   2. 5

      A judgment or decision.

      • And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.
      • But the day of doome shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is past.
      • Kings are spoken of as if they had a store of "Themistes" ready to hand for use; but it must be distinctly understood that they are not laws, but judgments, or, to take the exact Teutonic equivalent, "dooms."
   3. 6

      A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.

      • The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
      • Appeals were by our ancient law styled falsing of dooms. They were to be entered immediately after doom or sentence was pronounced,
      • The billiard sharp whom anyone catches / His doom’s extremely hard— / He’s made to dwell— / In a dungeon cell / On a spot that’s always barred.
   4. 7

      Death.

      • They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
      • This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
      • Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom
   5. 8

      The Last Judgment

      The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.

   6. 9

      To pronounce judgment or sentence on

      To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.

      • a criminal doomed to death
      • Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
      • There was certainly plenty of badass Arya before and after—more on that soon—but here was Arya the living, breathing human, outnumbered and petrified of making the one slight wrong move that would doom her.
   7. 10

      To destine

      To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.

      • A man of genius […] doomed to struggle with difficulties.
   8. 11

      To judge

      To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

      • And while we know not that the King of heaven hath not doomed this place our safe retreat
   9. 12

      To ordain as a penalty

      To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.

      • Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?
   10. 13

       To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

   11. 14

       Initialism of didn't organize, only moved

       Initialism of didn't organize, only moved; used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize.

       • I tried to organize my stuff but just ended up making a big doom pile.
       • One day in April of 2021, Lindsey Bee decided it was time to deal with the laundry "doom piles" that had formed around her house. So she did what many people do when faced with a boring task. She turned to TikTok.
   12. 15

       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.
   13. 16

       Alternative form of Doom.

   14. 17

       Alternative form of doom (“didn't organize, only moved”).

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