1. doom - Noun
2. doom - Verb
3. Doom - Proper noun
Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
Ruin; death.
Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
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.
To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King Jr.
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. Don DeLillo
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. Pierre Corneille
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches. Zora Neale Hurston
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities. Alfred North Whitehead
Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will die, the doom on each one dead. Norse Proverb