meaning of doom
1. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
2. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
3. Ruin; death.
4. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
5. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
6. 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.
7. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
8. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
9. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
10. A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia.
11. an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "thats unfortunate but it isnt the end of the
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Related Words
doom | doomage | doomed | doomful | dooming | doomsday | doomsman | doomster |
