doom
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6.1
- noun
- /duːm/
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fatalidad
- This is going to spell doom to the resistance.
- doom and gloom
- impending doom
- sense of doom
I'm not in the doom and gloom yet.
- I'm not in the doom and gloom yet.
- So firstly, most people need to realize that doom porn sells.
- Making a lot of kind of doom and gloom videos lately, huh?
- I would say that, you know, people think it looks doom and gloom and all this stuff.
- I think it's I, I will use the word doom in in the long term.
- And so in in that sense, I just, I feel like the doom and gloom thing is.
- My generation heard the same voices of doom and despair.
- If you want depression, doom and despair, vote for Sleepy Joe Biden.
Examples
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So, what do you know of the doom awaiting this planet?
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The harbinger of doom just gave you a warning.
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So when left with certain doom, find a new solution.
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My generation heard the same voices of doom and despair.
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Dissent leads to division and division leads us to doom.
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There were losers everywhere, and this gave Stephen a combined sense of doom and gratitude.
Fiction book (1990) -
Defeated, I sank back against the chair, a sense of doom overwhelming me.
Fiction book (1996) -
A short, wet summer could reduce the production of winter fodder and spell doom for the small landholder.
Academic text (1998) -
The Sirens were famed for luring people, especially sailors, to their doom with their sweet songs.
Fiction book (1991) -
Many believed that the dark clouds signified the doom of the village.
Synonyms
915
3.0
A very sad event that causes much suffering and loss
75
3.7
A bad event that causes trouble
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Etymology
Doom as a noun comes from the Old English dōm, which meant 'judgment' and 'fate', and the word kept the idea of a fixed, often bad, fate as in doomsday ('final judgment'). So when we say someone faces doom we mean they face an unpleasant fate that seems certain.