Definition of Doom

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Definition of Doom

Doom

Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.

Ruin; death.

Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.

To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

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.

To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.

To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.

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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.

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

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

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

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.
Maurice Strong

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
Adolf Hitler

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

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
Christopher Lasch

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
Don DeLillo

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.
Jerry Only

Doom Translations

doom in Latin is fatum

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