doom

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dooms, dooming, doomed

1) N-UNCOUNT Doom is a terrible future state or event which you cannot prevent.

...his warnings of impending doom.

...a wicked mermaid who lured sailors to their doom.

Syn:

fate

2) N-UNCOUNT If you have a sense or feeling of doom, you feel that things are going very badly and are likely to get even worse.

Why are people so full of gloom and doom?...

Attendance figures had been steadily dropping, creating a mood of doom and discouragement among theatre directors.

3) VERB If a fact or event dooms someone or something to a particular fate, it makes certain that they are going to suffer in some way.

[V n to n] That argument was the turning point for their marriage, and the one which doomed it to failure. [Also V n to-inf]

Syn:

condemn