doom
/duːm/ verb C2- To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn. · a criminal doomed to death
- To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
- To be extremely pessimistic about something.
He/she/it dooms · Past doomed · Past participle doomed · -ing form dooming
Verb forms
- Base form
- doom
- He/she/it
- dooms
- Past
- doomed
- Past participle
- doomed
- -ing form
- dooming
From the library
If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom.
From that moment their man was doomed.
The hapless Dantès was doomed.
He is doomed to die!
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