doom
Other forms: doomed; dooms; dooming
Doom is death, destruction, the end of the world, the big goodbye. It can also be a verb — if a man twirling a mustache ties you to the railroad tracks, he dooms you to certain death!
Doctor Doom is a comic book villain you do not want to mess with. He’s the doctor of death! If you feel that the world is terrible, you’re all doom and gloom. If someone dies, she meets her doom. People usually talk about doom as a type of fate — doom isn't an accident. When doom is a verb, watch out — being slack dooms careers and lies doom relationships. Stay away from all forms of doom.
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an unpleasant or disastrous destiny“everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it”
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synonyms:
day of reckoning, doomsday, end of the world
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make certain of the failure or destruction of
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decree or designate beforehand
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pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
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Rafe Khatchadorian and his friend Leonardo come up with a game in which they earn points for breaking middle school rules. But a school bully discovers their journal full of the game's details and threatens to turn them in.
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