to doom

Examples

• All

• Unless these women were independently wealthy, they were doomed to an old age of poverty and dependence.

  Academic text (2011)

• What projects do I choose that are doomed to fail?

  To Rome with Love (2012)

• You doomed them a long time ago.

  Copshop (2021)

• You have failed, and in the process, doomed me as well as yourself.

  Fiction book (1992)

• You had to know this Union scheme was doomed to fail.

  Cloud Atlas (2012)

• But do our expectations function that way, or do they doom the nation to disappointment?

  Academic text (1994)

• Without them, we are doomed to recession.

  South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

• On-campus housing is their only option; otherwise, they are doomed to repeat the cycle of poverty.

  Academic text (2008)

• Those who don't innovate are doomed to die.

  Antitrust (2001)

• Our chances of success are doomed if we don't make changes soon.

Synonyms

D

to destine

vsto doom

163 5.7

To decide that someone or something will have a certain future

is limited to making a harmful or failing outcome certain

F

to fate

vsto doom

4 7.4

To be chosen by destiny to have a certain result

focuses on making failure or destruction certain by decision or action

F

to foredoom

vsto doom

• Archaic

1 9.9

To make someone certain to fail or end badly

is about causing or deciding the negative result to be certain now

Compounds

P

prophet of doom

• Informal

1 8.0

A person who always says bad things will happen

C

crack of doom

• Archaic

9.9

The day when God judges everyone and the world ends

D

demon duck of doom

• Informal

9.9

A funny, scary-looking duck figure used in jokes or shows

D

doom mongering

• Literature

8.4

Saying the future will be bad to make people worried

How Serious

to doom

113 5.8

to lead to

∞ 2.5

to spell

111 7.2

to result

966 1.6

to suggest

∞ 2.1

hint

229 1.5

Surface Forms

Etymology