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The Meaning of doom

  • (v. t.) Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
  • (v. t.) That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
  • (v. t.) Ruin; death.
  • (v. t.) Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
  • (v. t.) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
  • (v. t.) To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
  • (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  • (v. t.) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
  • (v. t.) To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.

Synonyms

doomsday , day of reckoning , end of the world , destine , fate , designate , sentence , condemn

Rhymes

abloom , assume , backroom , ballroom , barroom , bathroom , bedroom , bloom , blum , blume , boardroom , boom , bridegroom , broom , broome , brume , classroom , cloakroom , consume , costume , courtroom , croom , crume , darkroom , elbowroom , entomb , exhume , flume , fume , gloom , glume , groom , groome , grume , handloom , headroom , heirloom , hume , kaboom , khartoum , kume , legroom , legume , loom , lunchroom , mailroom , maktoum , mcbroom , neume , perfume , playroom , plume , presume , reassume , reaume , restroom , resume , rheaume , rheum , room , schoolroom , showroom , spoom , spume , stockroom , storeroom , sunroom , tomb , toolroom , vroom , washroom , whom , womb , workroom , zoom