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doom / doōm/ • n. death, destruction, or some other terrible fate: the aircraft was sent crashing to its doom in the water. ∎ [in sing.] archaic (in Christian belief) the Last Judgment. • v. [tr.] (usu. be doomed) condemn to certain destruction or death: fuel was spilling out of the damaged wing and the aircraft was doomed. ∎ cause to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome: her plan was doomed to failure | [as adj.] (doomed) the moving story of their doomed love affair. PHRASES: doom and gloom (also gloom and doom) a general feeling of pessimism or despondency: the national feeling of doom and gloom.
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Doomsday the last day of the world's existence; Judgement Day. Doomsday Book is sometimes found as a variant of Domesday Book.
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Hence doom vb. XV.
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An archaic term for a court's judgment. For example, some criminal sentences still end with the phrase " … which is pronounced for doom."
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Doom or Doomsday: see Judgment Day.
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