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Definition of Doom

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.

Doom Quotations

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
Ani DiFranco

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
Pierre Corneille

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
Herman Melville
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Doom Translations

doom in Latin is fatum

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