to doom
4
9.9
- verb
- /duːm/
- Archaic
:
sentenciar a
- If I insist on you carrying out your promise... I doom you to a hideous death.
- doom thee to death
Examples
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The judge will doom the defendants to imprisonment after their trial concludes.
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The emperor in his rage will doom her death.
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The prince will doom thee death if thou art taken.
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If Your Honor shall doom these boys to die, it'll be because... their parents are rich.
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Thou hast doomed us.
Fiction book (1992) -
In his proclamation, the king will doom the traitors to death for their betrayal.
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If the evidence is clear, the court will doom her to serve a long sentence.
Synonyms
321
6.3
To give someone a punishment in court, for example prison time
148
3.5
To officially give a decision about someone or something
49
5.6
To officially say someone must be punished for a crime
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Doom in older use comes from the Old English word dōm meaning 'judgment' or 'sentence', where judges would say a person's punishment. That is why this old use of the verb means 'to pronounce a legal sentence'.