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  • adjective Suggesting doom.

Etymologies

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doom +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Their thundering machines filled the sky with a “doomlike sound,” creating a “spectacle of war” that made Pyle and the men he was with forget for a moment the danger they were in.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • Their thundering machines filled the sky with a “doomlike sound,” creating a “spectacle of war” that made Pyle and the men he was with forget for a moment the danger they were in.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • And then a new sound gradually droned into our ears, a sound deep and all-encompassing with no notes in it—just a gigantic faraway surge of doomlike sound.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • And then a new sound gradually droned into our ears, a sound deep and all-encompassing with no notes in it—just a gigantic faraway surge of doomlike sound.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • The meaning seemed vague but the tone was doomlike enough.

    Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

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