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doom
[ doom ]
noun
- fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune:
In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
to fall to one's doom.
- a judgment, decision, or sentence, especially an unfavorable one:
The judge pronounced the defendant's doom.
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- the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.
- Obsolete. a statute, enactment, or legal judgment.
verb (used with object)
- to destine, especially to an adverse fate.
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- to pronounce judgment against; condemn.
- to ordain or fix as a sentence or fate.
doom
/ »å³Ü˳¾ /
noun
- death or a terrible fate
- a judgment or decision
- sometimes capital another term for the Last Judgment
verb
- tr to destine or condemn to death or a terrible fate
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- »å´Ç´Ç³¾Â·²â adjective
- ±è°ù±ð·»å´Ç´Ç³¾ verb (used with object)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of doom1
First recorded before 900; Middle English dome, »åų¾, Old English »åų¾ “judgment, lawâ€; cognate with Old Norse »åų¾r, “judgment, sentence, court,†Gothic »åų¾s “sentence, fame,†all from Germanic »åô³¾²¹³ú “what has been set,†from »åô²Ô “to set, place, do 1( def ) â€; compare Greek ³Ù³óé³¾¾±²õ “law†(i.e., “what has been set, laid downâ€); deem
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of doom1
Old English »åų¾; related to Old Norse »åų¾r judgment, Gothic »åų¾s sentence, Old High German tuom condition, Greek thomos crowd, Sanskrit »å³óÄå³¾²¹²Ô custom; see do 1, deem , deed , -dom
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See fate.
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Solanke had three goals and two assists in the six games before that, and has the potential to go off against a doomed Southampton side.
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Does all of this mean that organized labor law is a doomed dinosaur, irrevocably headed toward irrelevance?
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