Meaning of Doom | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Destiny, especially terrible.
   countable, uncountable
2. A popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the progenitor of the genre.
3. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
   countable, uncountable
4. Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
   countable, uncountable
5. A law.
   countable, obsolete
6. A judgment or decision.
   countable, obsolete
7. A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
   countable, obsolete
8. Death.
   countable, uncountable
9. The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
   capitalized, countable, sometimes, uncountable

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Examples

“This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her doom,”

“"When should I expect him?" Roy said, resigned to his doom.”

“We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom.”

“"After he takes the throne, you will be arrested." / "You lie like your master, Carfax. Your doom is sealed."”

“unlike Vincent, he wasn't quite taken in by the outbreak of hopefulness on all sides. After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of doom still hung undisturbed over the project.”

“Such paintings are inherently moody, and Elliott likes that-even as he carefully avoids dictating a specific mood. "Yesterday I painted the last light of the day-the trees looked pink, and the mountain's shadow was coming over them. It created a feeling of nostalgia... or impending doom... or still, quiet, peacefulness. It depends on the viewer's feelings about the scene, not just mine."”

“Chung was the first of its four picks in Round 2. His arrival might spell doom for Rodney Harrison.”

“She halted her pacing steps as the ugly significance of Nicholas Caulfield's pending arrival washed over her. Ruin. Destitution. Doom settled like a heavy stone in her chest.”

“Feeling doom, as we learned in the beautiful folk language of blacks who knew the truth of it, began with a single unexpected oddity — a redbird out of season, hail out of cloudless skies, dogs cowering under the house”

“I'm taking medications every day; never thinking I would be spiraling into nothing but a nightmare that made me feel doom.”

“Then the smiling narrator filled me with doom: I was expected to pull my own rip cord. I nearly fainted.”

“perhaps you do that most rare of things when reading the news: You grin, exhale, stop feeling doom in every crevasse and corner of your body.”

“"What ye will not that other men should do unto you, that do ye not unto other men." "From this one doom," comments Alfred, "a man may bethink him how he should judge every one rightly: he needs no other doombook."”

“And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.”

“But the day of doome shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is past.”

“Kings are spoken of as if they had a store of "Themistes" ready to hand for use; but it must be distinctly understood that they are not laws, but judgments, or, to take the exact Teutonic equivalent, "dooms."”

“when Alfred in turn set himself to the task of stating and interpreting the law of his kingdom, there were already precedents for him to follow, in the written "dooms" (domas) of his predecessors, — themselves but a small portion of the still unwritten custom”

“Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.”

“The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.”

“Appeals were by our ancient law styled falsing of dooms. They were to be entered immediately after doom or sentence was pronounced,”

“The billiard sharp whom anyone catches / His doom’s extremely hard— / He’s made to dwell— / In a dungeon cell / On a spot that’s always barred.”

“They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.”

“This is the day of doom for Bassianus.”

“Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom”

“The engines were rumbling, missing every now and then, and Rachel leaned back in her seat, prepared to meet her doom somewhere over the Pacific. At least there was a priest at hand -- maybe she could entice him to hear a final confession.”

“Origin […] have used the canvas of a Doom-like first-person 3-D engine to paint a master work of their own in this comic-book action game.”

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