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doom

Definition

  • noun: very bad events or situations that cannot be avoided
  • noun: a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England
  • verb: to make (someone or something) certain to fail, suffer, die, etc.
  • verb: to give judgment against
  • usually used as '(be) doomed'
  • synonyms: condemn, ruin, destruction

Examples

  • The sailors had a sense/feeling of (impending) 'doom' as the storm approached. [=they sensed or felt that something very bad was going to happen]

  • The 'prophets of doom' [=people who predict that bad things will happen] say that the Internet will kill off print newspapers.

  • The poor economy 'spelled doom' for many small businesses. [=many small businesses would fail because of the poor economy]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Please set numbers to console.... Hold, varlet! Are you speaking to me? None other, sire. Look, l'm hungry and l-- Prepare for thy doom, thy scurrilous knave! Huh! Wait a minute! Can't we talk this over? What, have you no spine, varlet? Well, l.... The queen! (..)
    1973 Westworld