doom

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Inevitable destruction or ruin.
2. n. Fate, especially a tragic or ruinous one.
3. n. A decision or judgment, especially an official condemnation to a severe penalty.
4. n. Judgment Day.
5. n. A statute or ordinance, especially one in force in Anglo-Saxon England.
6. v. To condemn to ruination or death. See Synonyms at condemn.
7. v. To destine to an unhappy end.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Judgment or decision; specifically, a decision determining fate or fortune; fateful decision or decree: originally in a neutral sense, but now generally implying an adverse decision; as, the court pronounced doom upon the culprits; to fall by doom of battle.
2. n. Fate decreed or determined; fixed fortune; irrevocable destiny.
3. n. Judgment or opinion; discernment.
4. n. The last judgment. See doomsday.
5. To judge; form a judgment upon.
6. To condemn to punishment; consign by a decree or sentence; pronounce sentence or judgment on; destine: as, a criminal doomed to death; we are doomed to suffer for our errors.
7. To ordain as a penalty; decree.
8. To tax by estimate or at discretion, as on the failure of a taxpayer to make a statement of his taxable property.

Wiktionary

1. n. countable, historical A law.
2. n. countable, historical A judgment or decision
3. n. countable, historical A sentence or penalty for an illegality or type of illegality.
4. n. Death; an adverse or terrible fate, end.
5. n. Destiny, especially adverse.
6. n. An impending severe problem or danger that seems inevitable.
7. n. A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
8. n. sometimes capitalized The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation of it.
9. v. To condemn to a terrible fate or outcome

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
2. n. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
3. n. Ruin; death.
4. n. obsolete Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
5. v. obsolete To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
6. v. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence.
7. v. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
8. v. New England To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
9. v. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
2. v. make certain of the failure or destruction of
3. v. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
4. v. decree or designate beforehand