doom
/duːm/ noun B2- Destiny, especially terrible.
- An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
- Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
- Death. · They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
- The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
Plural dooms
From the library
If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom.
But absolute secrecy was necessary, or even in this quiet country-side there would have been an outcry, and I should have been dragged to my horrible doom.
In this I fancy that in any case he made a miscalculation, and that, if we had not been there, his doom would none the less have been sealed.
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