Definition of doom in English:

doom

noun duːmdum

mass noun

1Death, destruction, or some other terrible fate.
死亡；毁灭；劫数
the aircraft was sent crashing to its doom in the water
飞机一头坠入水中，遭受灭顶之灾。
Example sentencesExamples
- Why are they looking at me as if this dream spells impending doom?
- Dust filled the air as one by one the vampires met their doom.
- Unfortunately, their votes spell certain doom for other countries, other innocent people.
- I have to work today with this feeling of impending doom hanging over me.
- Transformation as currently practiced carries an appreciable risk of ultimate doom.
- She was filled with a sickly sense of fear and the realization that she was facing her own imminent doom.
- So the prophets are split neatly between impending economic doom and postponed blight.
- If she does not, the ancient prophecies foretell doom and destruction over all the earth.
- There is a longstanding feeling of doom hanging over the offense.
- She didn't want to turn evil and hand the world to its doom.
- The rat squeals and fights, sensing it may be headed to its doom.
- They knew only one thing: It foretold their doom.
- Many economists are predicting doom and gloom in the times ahead but racing has never been stronger.
- However, its inevitable collapse spelled doom for the many colonies that were dependent on it.
- The film rumbles along, an ominous sense of marital doom hanging over the entire affair.
- Elm tree shadows crept across the street and spelled doom for my project.
- Meanwhile, everyone she films with her cursed camera meets an untimely doom.
- For most teams, the loss of their star player would spell almost certain doom.
- There is one state that is an infallible indicator of imminent doom: suffering.
- Since the real world is more frightening than the void, thoughts turn to impending doom, death and suicide.
Synonyms
destruction, downfall, grim/terrible fate, ruin, ruination, rack and ruin, catastrophe, disaster
extinction, annihilation, death, end, termination
rare quietus
1. 1.1archaic in singular (in Christian belief) the Last Judgement.
  〈古〉（基督教教义中的）末日审判；最后审判日，世界末日
  a day like that of the last doom
  See also crack of doom at crack
  Example sentencesExamples
  According to this story, he promised her that if her desire is not fulfilled after this practice, she can catch hold of him at the doom's day.
  Cursed by Eve, rejected by Adam, and marked on the brow by an angel of the Lord, Cain sets forth into exile with his wife and children, knowing that they will further the doom of mankind.
  Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom.

verb duːmdum

[with object]

1Condemn to certain death or destruction.
宣告…必然毁灭；宣告…必然死亡
fuel was spilling out of the damaged wing and the aircraft was doomed
燃料从受损的机翼溢出，飞机注定要完蛋了。
Example sentencesExamples
- With the constant drug-taking the marriage was doomed and it lasted just 14 months.
- Mike hardly ever looks at girls, and when he does, the relationship is doomed from the start.
- I can tell you, some Republicans privately saying they think this dooms his potential presidential chances in 2008.
- Though the number of speakers declined again in the 1990s, there is nothing intrinsic in the nature of the language or its circumstances that dooms it.
- I am part of that menacing statistic that essentially dooms love from the very beginning.
- From my vantage point, I quickly came to the conclusion that bad journalism was dooming the business of Internet content.
- If she said yes, she was cursed and doomed for eternity.
- Failure to satisfy both components dooms the program.
- I realize that the relationship is inevitably doomed.
- The contact caused a small crack in the wing, allowing hot gas to seep in on re-entry, destroying the wing and dooming the crew.
- What made it useful in an earlier world is dooming it in this one.
- But the project was doomed from the very outset.
- But no, releasing this wasp out into the cold would doom it for sure, and I'm feeling too much cabin-fever kinship with her.
- Moreover, the way the authorities went about reform helped to doom their efforts.
- Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history.
- However, a star does not have to appear doomed for their death to increase or alter their value.
- But all we really see is that the couple was doomed from the get-go.
- Despite being financially doomed from the beginning, the promoters never let the party stop.
- Illicit romance dooms the characters, bringing them closer to death and destruction than ever before and cementing their maturity - or lack thereof - permanently.
- Their brief marriage was clearly doomed from the start by her parents' snobbish condescension.
1. 1.1 Cause to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome.
  使有不幸的必然结果
  her plan was doomed to failure
  她的计划注定要失败。
  Example sentencesExamples
  All we all doomed to repeat the same mistakes as our mothers?
  If we don't allow any quality commercial development then the town is doomed to a mediocre fate.
  Some of us avoid that painful process by diving straight into a new relationship, dooming ourselves to an endlessly repeating pattern of failure, while others remain shattered by the experience for years to come.
  Is my slothful old age doomed to gloomy obscurity?
  They're firmly locked into delusion, and are doomed to live there forever.
  Most of these duplicated segments are doomed to oblivion, because any proteins their genes produce are redundant.
  It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
  The workers held out for three days, but they were doomed to defeat.
  Otherwise he will be forever doomed to be the victim of his own erudition.
  Failing to recognize the dark side of humanity dooms us to repeat those failings.
  When I was doomed to live in despair, he saved me!
  Alas, the reader - sophisticated or otherwise - is doomed to disappointment.
  If you go by what the experts and data crunchers say, the worker bees of the world are dooming the civilized, unhurried meal to an untimely death.
  Perhaps the promoter may have been able to do something, but the truth is, it's the lack of venues that are dooming our live acts to cancelling and moving to venues that half the audience can't enter.
  Maybe it was always doomed to be a lost cause.
  To start a project and then determine you or your staff is not able to commit the time needed will doom your project to sure failure.
  To ignore the current situation would certainly doom the denomination to an untimely death.
  Is the field of canine cognition doomed forever to repeat this seemingly endless dispute?
  Looking for a history that isn't there, these hand-wringing malcontents are doomed to disappointment.
  He was going only out of a sense of obligation to an already doomed relationship.
  Synonyms
  destine, fate, predestine, ordain, preordain, foredoom, mean, foreordain, consign
  condemn, sentence
  (doomed), certain, sure, bound, guaranteed, assured, very likely
  ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened, star-crossed, under a curse, cursed, jinxed, foredoomed, hapless, damned, bedevilled, luckless, unlucky
  Scottish fey

Phrases

doom and gloom

A general feeling of pessimism or despondency.
悲观失望的氛围
the national feeling of doom and gloom
全国的悲观失望气氛。
Example sentencesExamples
- So the tabloid-style gloom and doom may simply be disinformation.
- Those who predicted doom and gloom at the start of the campaign will no doubt be feeling rather smug.
- This is not only good news but encouraging revelations, especially made at the beginning of the year when projections are usually about gloom and doom.
- Nobody is forecasting gloom and doom here, but we are facing challenging times that if not dealt with have serious implications for the entire world.
- Is there any good news among all this gloom and doom?
- Look, it wasn't all gloom and doom, but like I said - it was getting old.
- It's a miraculous way to yank yourself out of gloom and doom.
- ‘It's not all gloom and doom,’ he says, with a twinkle in his eye.
- The one good thing about all this gloom and doom, I thought to myself, is that it would be highly unlikely that my neighbor's gardeners would appear on a day like this.
- While commentators have been casting gloom and doom on the prospects for their opponents, I think every party involved in this election will have some degree of satisfaction.
Synonyms
defeatism, negative thinking, negativity, expecting the worst, doom and gloom, gloom, gloominess

Origin

Old English dōm 'statute, judgement', of Germanic origin, from a base meaning 'to put in place'; related to do¹.

The ancient root of doom meant ‘to put in place’ and is also the root of do (Old English). By the time that written English records began the emphasis had narrowed to putting law and order in place: the Old English senses of doom include ‘a law, statute’, ‘a judicial decision’, and ‘the right to judge’. In the context of the end of the world, the word ‘judgement’ was not used until the 16th century—before that the usual term for Judgement Day was doomsday (source of the name the Domesday Book for the survey of the land ordered by William the Conqueror in 1085 for tax purposes, because it was the final authority on such things). In the Middle Ages this was also shortened to doom, a use that survives only in the crack of doom. ‘ We're doomed!’ was the catchphrase of the gloomy Scottish undertaker Frazer, played by John Laurie, in the BBC TV comedy Dad's Army (1968–77). The 1947 musical Finian's Rainbow popularized gloom and doom, which became a catchphrase when it was made into a film in 1968. The idea seemed appropriate to a world threatened by nuclear war.

Rhymes

abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom

Definition of doom in US English:

doom

noundo͞omdum

1Death, destruction, or some other terrible fate.
死亡；毁灭；劫数
the aircraft was sent crashing to its doom in the water
飞机一头坠入水中，遭受灭顶之灾。
Example sentencesExamples
- The rat squeals and fights, sensing it may be headed to its doom.
- She was filled with a sickly sense of fear and the realization that she was facing her own imminent doom.
- Since the real world is more frightening than the void, thoughts turn to impending doom, death and suicide.
- Unfortunately, their votes spell certain doom for other countries, other innocent people.
- There is one state that is an infallible indicator of imminent doom: suffering.
- Transformation as currently practiced carries an appreciable risk of ultimate doom.
- She didn't want to turn evil and hand the world to its doom.
- Why are they looking at me as if this dream spells impending doom?
- Elm tree shadows crept across the street and spelled doom for my project.
- The film rumbles along, an ominous sense of marital doom hanging over the entire affair.
- So the prophets are split neatly between impending economic doom and postponed blight.
- I have to work today with this feeling of impending doom hanging over me.
- If she does not, the ancient prophecies foretell doom and destruction over all the earth.
- Meanwhile, everyone she films with her cursed camera meets an untimely doom.
- There is a longstanding feeling of doom hanging over the offense.
- Dust filled the air as one by one the vampires met their doom.
- Many economists are predicting doom and gloom in the times ahead but racing has never been stronger.
- For most teams, the loss of their star player would spell almost certain doom.
- However, its inevitable collapse spelled doom for the many colonies that were dependent on it.
- They knew only one thing: It foretold their doom.
Synonyms
destruction, downfall, grim fate, terrible fate, ruin, ruination, rack and ruin, catastrophe, disaster
1. 1.1archaic in singular (in Christian belief) the Last Judgment.
  〈古〉（基督教教义中的）末日审判；最后审判日，世界末日
  Example sentencesExamples
  Cursed by Eve, rejected by Adam, and marked on the brow by an angel of the Lord, Cain sets forth into exile with his wife and children, knowing that they will further the doom of mankind.
  According to this story, he promised her that if her desire is not fulfilled after this practice, she can catch hold of him at the doom's day.
  Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom.

verbdo͞omdum

[with object]usually be doomed

1Condemn to certain destruction or death.
宣告…必然毁灭；宣告…必然死亡
fuel was spilling out of the damaged wing and the aircraft was doomed
燃料从受损的机翼溢出，飞机注定要完蛋了。
Example sentencesExamples
- If she said yes, she was cursed and doomed for eternity.
- But the project was doomed from the very outset.
- With the constant drug-taking the marriage was doomed and it lasted just 14 months.
- But no, releasing this wasp out into the cold would doom it for sure, and I'm feeling too much cabin-fever kinship with her.
- I am part of that menacing statistic that essentially dooms love from the very beginning.
- Mike hardly ever looks at girls, and when he does, the relationship is doomed from the start.
- I can tell you, some Republicans privately saying they think this dooms his potential presidential chances in 2008.
- Failure to satisfy both components dooms the program.
- Illicit romance dooms the characters, bringing them closer to death and destruction than ever before and cementing their maturity - or lack thereof - permanently.
- Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history.
- Their brief marriage was clearly doomed from the start by her parents' snobbish condescension.
- I realize that the relationship is inevitably doomed.
- However, a star does not have to appear doomed for their death to increase or alter their value.
- Despite being financially doomed from the beginning, the promoters never let the party stop.
- The contact caused a small crack in the wing, allowing hot gas to seep in on re-entry, destroying the wing and dooming the crew.
- Moreover, the way the authorities went about reform helped to doom their efforts.
- From my vantage point, I quickly came to the conclusion that bad journalism was dooming the business of Internet content.
- What made it useful in an earlier world is dooming it in this one.
- Though the number of speakers declined again in the 1990s, there is nothing intrinsic in the nature of the language or its circumstances that dooms it.
- But all we really see is that the couple was doomed from the get-go.
1. 1.1 Cause to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome.
  使有不幸的必然结果
  her plan was doomed to failure
  她的计划注定要失败。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If we don't allow any quality commercial development then the town is doomed to a mediocre fate.
  All we all doomed to repeat the same mistakes as our mothers?
  To start a project and then determine you or your staff is not able to commit the time needed will doom your project to sure failure.
  Alas, the reader - sophisticated or otherwise - is doomed to disappointment.
  Is the field of canine cognition doomed forever to repeat this seemingly endless dispute?
  Is my slothful old age doomed to gloomy obscurity?
  Most of these duplicated segments are doomed to oblivion, because any proteins their genes produce are redundant.
  Failing to recognize the dark side of humanity dooms us to repeat those failings.
  Otherwise he will be forever doomed to be the victim of his own erudition.
  Some of us avoid that painful process by diving straight into a new relationship, dooming ourselves to an endlessly repeating pattern of failure, while others remain shattered by the experience for years to come.
  It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
  The workers held out for three days, but they were doomed to defeat.
  He was going only out of a sense of obligation to an already doomed relationship.
  If you go by what the experts and data crunchers say, the worker bees of the world are dooming the civilized, unhurried meal to an untimely death.
  Looking for a history that isn't there, these hand-wringing malcontents are doomed to disappointment.
  When I was doomed to live in despair, he saved me!
  To ignore the current situation would certainly doom the denomination to an untimely death.
  They're firmly locked into delusion, and are doomed to live there forever.
  Perhaps the promoter may have been able to do something, but the truth is, it's the lack of venues that are dooming our live acts to cancelling and moving to venues that half the audience can't enter.
  Maybe it was always doomed to be a lost cause.
  Synonyms
  ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened, star-crossed, under a curse, cursed, jinxed, foredoomed, hapless, damned, bedevilled, luckless, unlucky
  destine, fate, predestine, ordain, preordain, foredoom, mean, foreordain, consign

Phrases

doom and gloom

A general feeling of pessimism or despondency.
悲观失望的氛围
the national feeling of doom and gloom
全国的悲观失望气氛。
Example sentencesExamples
- This is not only good news but encouraging revelations, especially made at the beginning of the year when projections are usually about gloom and doom.
- Look, it wasn't all gloom and doom, but like I said - it was getting old.
- It's a miraculous way to yank yourself out of gloom and doom.
- So the tabloid-style gloom and doom may simply be disinformation.
- Nobody is forecasting gloom and doom here, but we are facing challenging times that if not dealt with have serious implications for the entire world.
- The one good thing about all this gloom and doom, I thought to myself, is that it would be highly unlikely that my neighbor's gardeners would appear on a day like this.
- While commentators have been casting gloom and doom on the prospects for their opponents, I think every party involved in this election will have some degree of satisfaction.
- Is there any good news among all this gloom and doom?
- Those who predicted doom and gloom at the start of the campaign will no doubt be feeling rather smug.
- ‘It's not all gloom and doom,’ he says, with a twinkle in his eye.
Synonyms
defeatism, negative thinking, negativity, expecting the worst, doom and gloom, gloom, gloominess

Origin

Old English dōm ‘statute, judgement’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘to put in place’; related to do.

词汇	doom
释义	Definition of doom in English: doom noun duːmdum mass noun 1Death, destruction, or some other terrible fate. 死亡；毁灭；劫数 the aircraft was sent crashing to its doom in the water 飞机一头坠入水中，遭受灭顶之灾。 Example sentencesExamples Why are they looking at me as if this dream spells impending doom? Dust filled the air as one by one the vampires met their doom. Unfortunately, their votes spell certain doom for other countries, other innocent people. I have to work today with this feeling of impending doom hanging over me. Transformation as currently practiced carries an appreciable risk of ultimate doom. She was filled with a sickly sense of fear and the realization that she was facing her own imminent doom. So the prophets are split neatly between impending economic doom and postponed blight. If she does not, the ancient prophecies foretell doom and destruction over all the earth. There is a longstanding feeling of doom hanging over the offense. She didn't want to turn evil and hand the world to its doom. The rat squeals and fights, sensing it may be headed to its doom. They knew only one thing: It foretold their doom. Many economists are predicting doom and gloom in the times ahead but racing has never been stronger. However, its inevitable collapse spelled doom for the many colonies that were dependent on it. The film rumbles along, an ominous sense of marital doom hanging over the entire affair. Elm tree shadows crept across the street and spelled doom for my project. Meanwhile, everyone she films with her cursed camera meets an untimely doom. For most teams, the loss of their star player would spell almost certain doom. There is one state that is an infallible indicator of imminent doom: suffering. Since the real world is more frightening than the void, thoughts turn to impending doom, death and suicide. Synonyms destruction, downfall, grim/terrible fate, ruin, ruination, rack and ruin, catastrophe, disaster extinction, annihilation, death, end, termination rare quietus 1.1archaic in singular (in Christian belief) the Last Judgement. 〈古〉（基督教教义中的）末日审判；最后审判日，世界末日 a day like that of the last doom See also crack of doom at crack Example sentencesExamples According to this story, he promised her that if her desire is not fulfilled after this practice, she can catch hold of him at the doom's day. Cursed by Eve, rejected by Adam, and marked on the brow by an angel of the Lord, Cain sets forth into exile with his wife and children, knowing that they will further the doom of mankind. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom. verb duːmdum [with object] 1Condemn to certain death or destruction. 宣告…必然毁灭；宣告…必然死亡 fuel was spilling out of the damaged wing and the aircraft was doomed 燃料从受损的机翼溢出，飞机注定要完蛋了。 Example sentencesExamples With the constant drug-taking the marriage was doomed and it lasted just 14 months. Mike hardly ever looks at girls, and when he does, the relationship is doomed from the start. I can tell you, some Republicans privately saying they think this dooms his potential presidential chances in 2008. Though the number of speakers declined again in the 1990s, there is nothing intrinsic in the nature of the language or its circumstances that dooms it. I am part of that menacing statistic that essentially dooms love from the very beginning. From my vantage point, I quickly came to the conclusion that bad journalism was dooming the business of Internet content. If she said yes, she was cursed and doomed for eternity. Failure to satisfy both components dooms the program. I realize that the relationship is inevitably doomed. The contact caused a small crack in the wing, allowing hot gas to seep in on re-entry, destroying the wing and dooming the crew. What made it useful in an earlier world is dooming it in this one. But the project was doomed from the very outset. But no, releasing this wasp out into the cold would doom it for sure, and I'm feeling too much cabin-fever kinship with her. Moreover, the way the authorities went about reform helped to doom their efforts. Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history. However, a star does not have to appear doomed for their death to increase or alter their value. But all we really see is that the couple was doomed from the get-go. Despite being financially doomed from the beginning, the promoters never let the party stop. Illicit romance dooms the characters, bringing them closer to death and destruction than ever before and cementing their maturity - or lack thereof - permanently. Their brief marriage was clearly doomed from the start by her parents' snobbish condescension. 1.1 Cause to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome. 使有不幸的必然结果 her plan was doomed to failure 她的计划注定要失败。 Example sentencesExamples All we all doomed to repeat the same mistakes as our mothers? If we don't allow any quality commercial development then the town is doomed to a mediocre fate. Some of us avoid that painful process by diving straight into a new relationship, dooming ourselves to an endlessly repeating pattern of failure, while others remain shattered by the experience for years to come. Is my slothful old age doomed to gloomy obscurity? They're firmly locked into delusion, and are doomed to live there forever. Most of these duplicated segments are doomed to oblivion, because any proteins their genes produce are redundant. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead. The workers held out for three days, but they were doomed to defeat. Otherwise he will be forever doomed to be the victim of his own erudition. Failing to recognize the dark side of humanity dooms us to repeat those failings. When I was doomed to live in despair, he saved me! Alas, the reader - sophisticated or otherwise - is doomed to disappointment. If you go by what the experts and data crunchers say, the worker bees of the world are dooming the civilized, unhurried meal to an untimely death. Perhaps the promoter may have been able to do something, but the truth is, it's the lack of venues that are dooming our live acts to cancelling and moving to venues that half the audience can't enter. Maybe it was always doomed to be a lost cause. To start a project and then determine you or your staff is not able to commit the time needed will doom your project to sure failure. To ignore the current situation would certainly doom the denomination to an untimely death. Is the field of canine cognition doomed forever to repeat this seemingly endless dispute? Looking for a history that isn't there, these hand-wringing malcontents are doomed to disappointment. He was going only out of a sense of obligation to an already doomed relationship. Synonyms destine, fate, predestine, ordain, preordain, foredoom, mean, foreordain, consign condemn, sentence (doomed), certain, sure, bound, guaranteed, assured, very likely ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened, star-crossed, under a curse, cursed, jinxed, foredoomed, hapless, damned, bedevilled, luckless, unlucky Scottish fey Phrases doom and gloom A general feeling of pessimism or despondency. 悲观失望的氛围 the national feeling of doom and gloom 全国的悲观失望气氛。 Example sentencesExamples So the tabloid-style gloom and doom may simply be disinformation. Those who predicted doom and gloom at the start of the campaign will no doubt be feeling rather smug. This is not only good news but encouraging revelations, especially made at the beginning of the year when projections are usually about gloom and doom. Nobody is forecasting gloom and doom here, but we are facing challenging times that if not dealt with have serious implications for the entire world. Is there any good news among all this gloom and doom? Look, it wasn't all gloom and doom, but like I said - it was getting old. It's a miraculous way to yank yourself out of gloom and doom. ‘It's not all gloom and doom,’ he says, with a twinkle in his eye. The one good thing about all this gloom and doom, I thought to myself, is that it would be highly unlikely that my neighbor's gardeners would appear on a day like this. While commentators have been casting gloom and doom on the prospects for their opponents, I think every party involved in this election will have some degree of satisfaction. Synonyms defeatism, negative thinking, negativity, expecting the worst, doom and gloom, gloom, gloominess Origin Old English dōm 'statute, judgement', of Germanic origin, from a base meaning 'to put in place'; related to do¹. The ancient root of doom meant ‘to put in place’ and is also the root of do (Old English). By the time that written English records began the emphasis had narrowed to putting law and order in place: the Old English senses of doom include ‘a law, statute’, ‘a judicial decision’, and ‘the right to judge’. In the context of the end of the world, the word ‘judgement’ was not used until the 16th century—before that the usual term for Judgement Day was doomsday (source of the name the Domesday Book for the survey of the land ordered by William the Conqueror in 1085 for tax purposes, because it was the final authority on such things). In the Middle Ages this was also shortened to doom, a use that survives only in the crack of doom. ‘ We're doomed!’ was the catchphrase of the gloomy Scottish undertaker Frazer, played by John Laurie, in the BBC TV comedy Dad's Army (1968–77). The 1947 musical Finian's Rainbow popularized gloom and doom, which became a catchphrase when it was made into a film in 1968. The idea seemed appropriate to a world threatened by nuclear war. Rhymes abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom noun.1 phr. Definition of doom in US English: doom noundo͞omdum 1Death, destruction, or some other terrible fate. 死亡；毁灭；劫数 the aircraft was sent crashing to its doom in the water 飞机一头坠入水中，遭受灭顶之灾。 Example sentencesExamples The rat squeals and fights, sensing it may be headed to its doom. She was filled with a sickly sense of fear and the realization that she was facing her own imminent doom. Since the real world is more frightening than the void, thoughts turn to impending doom, death and suicide. Unfortunately, their votes spell certain doom for other countries, other innocent people. There is one state that is an infallible indicator of imminent doom: suffering. Transformation as currently practiced carries an appreciable risk of ultimate doom. She didn't want to turn evil and hand the world to its doom. Why are they looking at me as if this dream spells impending doom? Elm tree shadows crept across the street and spelled doom for my project. The film rumbles along, an ominous sense of marital doom hanging over the entire affair. So the prophets are split neatly between impending economic doom and postponed blight. I have to work today with this feeling of impending doom hanging over me. If she does not, the ancient prophecies foretell doom and destruction over all the earth. Meanwhile, everyone she films with her cursed camera meets an untimely doom. There is a longstanding feeling of doom hanging over the offense. Dust filled the air as one by one the vampires met their doom. Many economists are predicting doom and gloom in the times ahead but racing has never been stronger. For most teams, the loss of their star player would spell almost certain doom. However, its inevitable collapse spelled doom for the many colonies that were dependent on it. They knew only one thing: It foretold their doom. Synonyms destruction, downfall, grim fate, terrible fate, ruin, ruination, rack and ruin, catastrophe, disaster 1.1archaic in singular (in Christian belief) the Last Judgment. 〈古〉（基督教教义中的）末日审判；最后审判日，世界末日 Example sentencesExamples Cursed by Eve, rejected by Adam, and marked on the brow by an angel of the Lord, Cain sets forth into exile with his wife and children, knowing that they will further the doom of mankind. According to this story, he promised her that if her desire is not fulfilled after this practice, she can catch hold of him at the doom's day. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom. verbdo͞omdum [with object]usually be doomed 1Condemn to certain destruction or death. 宣告…必然毁灭；宣告…必然死亡 fuel was spilling out of the damaged wing and the aircraft was doomed 燃料从受损的机翼溢出，飞机注定要完蛋了。 Example sentencesExamples If she said yes, she was cursed and doomed for eternity. But the project was doomed from the very outset. With the constant drug-taking the marriage was doomed and it lasted just 14 months. But no, releasing this wasp out into the cold would doom it for sure, and I'm feeling too much cabin-fever kinship with her. I am part of that menacing statistic that essentially dooms love from the very beginning. Mike hardly ever looks at girls, and when he does, the relationship is doomed from the start. I can tell you, some Republicans privately saying they think this dooms his potential presidential chances in 2008. Failure to satisfy both components dooms the program. Illicit romance dooms the characters, bringing them closer to death and destruction than ever before and cementing their maturity - or lack thereof - permanently. Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history. Their brief marriage was clearly doomed from the start by her parents' snobbish condescension. I realize that the relationship is inevitably doomed. However, a star does not have to appear doomed for their death to increase or alter their value. Despite being financially doomed from the beginning, the promoters never let the party stop. The contact caused a small crack in the wing, allowing hot gas to seep in on re-entry, destroying the wing and dooming the crew. Moreover, the way the authorities went about reform helped to doom their efforts. From my vantage point, I quickly came to the conclusion that bad journalism was dooming the business of Internet content. What made it useful in an earlier world is dooming it in this one. Though the number of speakers declined again in the 1990s, there is nothing intrinsic in the nature of the language or its circumstances that dooms it. But all we really see is that the couple was doomed from the get-go. 1.1 Cause to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome. 使有不幸的必然结果 her plan was doomed to failure 她的计划注定要失败。 Example sentencesExamples If we don't allow any quality commercial development then the town is doomed to a mediocre fate. All we all doomed to repeat the same mistakes as our mothers? To start a project and then determine you or your staff is not able to commit the time needed will doom your project to sure failure. Alas, the reader - sophisticated or otherwise - is doomed to disappointment. Is the field of canine cognition doomed forever to repeat this seemingly endless dispute? Is my slothful old age doomed to gloomy obscurity? Most of these duplicated segments are doomed to oblivion, because any proteins their genes produce are redundant. Failing to recognize the dark side of humanity dooms us to repeat those failings. Otherwise he will be forever doomed to be the victim of his own erudition. Some of us avoid that painful process by diving straight into a new relationship, dooming ourselves to an endlessly repeating pattern of failure, while others remain shattered by the experience for years to come. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead. The workers held out for three days, but they were doomed to defeat. He was going only out of a sense of obligation to an already doomed relationship. If you go by what the experts and data crunchers say, the worker bees of the world are dooming the civilized, unhurried meal to an untimely death. Looking for a history that isn't there, these hand-wringing malcontents are doomed to disappointment. When I was doomed to live in despair, he saved me! To ignore the current situation would certainly doom the denomination to an untimely death. They're firmly locked into delusion, and are doomed to live there forever. Perhaps the promoter may have been able to do something, but the truth is, it's the lack of venues that are dooming our live acts to cancelling and moving to venues that half the audience can't enter. Maybe it was always doomed to be a lost cause. Synonyms ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened, star-crossed, under a curse, cursed, jinxed, foredoomed, hapless, damned, bedevilled, luckless, unlucky destine, fate, predestine, ordain, preordain, foredoom, mean, foreordain, consign Phrases doom and gloom A general feeling of pessimism or despondency. 悲观失望的氛围 the national feeling of doom and gloom 全国的悲观失望气氛。 Example sentencesExamples This is not only good news but encouraging revelations, especially made at the beginning of the year when projections are usually about gloom and doom. Look, it wasn't all gloom and doom, but like I said - it was getting old. It's a miraculous way to yank yourself out of gloom and doom. So the tabloid-style gloom and doom may simply be disinformation. Nobody is forecasting gloom and doom here, but we are facing challenging times that if not dealt with have serious implications for the entire world. The one good thing about all this gloom and doom, I thought to myself, is that it would be highly unlikely that my neighbor's gardeners would appear on a day like this. While commentators have been casting gloom and doom on the prospects for their opponents, I think every party involved in this election will have some degree of satisfaction. Is there any good news among all this gloom and doom? Those who predicted doom and gloom at the start of the campaign will no doubt be feeling rather smug. ‘It's not all gloom and doom,’ he says, with a twinkle in his eye. Synonyms defeatism, negative thinking, negativity, expecting the worst, doom and gloom, gloom, gloominess Origin Old English dōm ‘statute, judgement’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘to put in place’; related to do. noun.1 phr.
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