doom

doom1 [ dum ] noun uncount

a bad event, usually death, destruction, or complete failure, that will happen in the future and cannot be avoided:

He predicted doom for any country that did not act immediately.

meet your doom (=die in an unpleasant way): the famous castle in Denmark where Hamlet met his doom

impending doom (=likely to happen soon): A sense of impending doom hung over the meeting.

doom and gloom

a feeling that a situation is very bad and without hope:

Despite all the doom and gloom on Wall Street, there are still some bright spots in the stock market.

spell doom for

to cause the end, death, or destruction of someone or something:

The arrival of the home computer spelled doom for the typewriter.

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doom

doom 2 [ dum ] verb transitive usually passive

to make someone or something certain to fail, be destroyed, be extremely unhappy, etc.:

doom someone/something to something: The invention of the train doomed the canals to extinction.

doom someone/something to do something: She felt she was doomed to work in an office all her life.

be doomed to failure: These schemes are always doomed to failure.