doom

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And, for the matter of that, their doom was already sealed.

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  1. noun Inevitable destruction or ruin.
  2. noun Fate, especially a tragic or ruinous one.
  3. noun A decision or judgment, especially an official condemnation to a severe penalty.
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  • But the hosts of Mordor were seized with bewilderment, and a great wizardry it seemed to them that their own ships should be filled with their foes; and a black dread fell on them, knowing that the tides of fate had turned against them and their doom was at hand. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • The cliffs and their doom might be a half hour away for all he knew. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • It makes our job so much easier. rave on vile left wing twits ... your doom is at hand! —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • Trains carrying Jews to their doom is an easy symbol for any WWII-set film that doesn't directly involve concentration camps yet wants to remind the audience that it's going on. —  SpoutBlog
  • There are many types of doom: epic doom, funeral doom, drone doom, stoner doom, and doom de doom (OK, I made that one up). —  Taipei Times
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calamity ·  destiny ·  disaster ·  defeat ·  woe ·  misery ·  disgrace ·  torment ·  punishment ·  desolation ·  peril ·  destruction

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doom:   dooms ·  dooming ·  doomed
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  1. Middle English dom, from Old English dōm, judgment; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English doome, dome, dom, from . Anglo-Saxon dōm, a judgment, sentence, doom, decree, law (= Old Saxon dōm = OFries. dōm = Old High German tuom = Icelandic dōmr = Swedish Danish dom = Gothic (Moesogothic) dōms), judgment, with formative -m, from dō-n, etc., English do, in the orig. sense of ‘put, place, set’; cf. Greek θέμις, established law, of the same ult. origin. Hence -dom and deem, q. v.
  2. from doom, n. The older form is deem, q. v.
 

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