Word Finder - doom

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Destiny, especially terrible.

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An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.

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A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.

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A law.

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A judgment or decision.

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A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.

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Death.

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They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.

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(sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.

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To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.

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a criminal doomed to death

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To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.

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To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

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To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.

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To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

The sense of doom was building.

Their doom was thus fixed.

He escaped this doom and dwelt for some years in a cavern.

That doom was postponed; but Catholics everywhere saw with pain the harsh treatment accorded to a defenceless old man.

The existence of the soul in the body was its punishment for sins in a previous condition; and the doom of its sins in the body was its descent into other bodies, and the postponement of its deliverance " (Salmond's Christian Doctrine of Immortality, p. 109).

A rare species is the acacia erioloba Rameel doom, akin to the acacia giraffae of Bechuanaland.

Whatever the case, the feeling of impending doom continued.

It and impending doom had been with her since meeting Gabriel.

In the savannas the most characteristic trees are the monkey bread tree or baobab (Adansonia digitata), doom palm (Hyphaene) and euphorbias.

Judgment, indeed, was an inevitable outcome of the sovereignty of Yahweh, but it would be passed upon the nation in the immediate scene of its misdoings; and even when the scope of the divine doom 8 Von Kremer, Die Herrschenden Ideen des Islams, p. 233 ff.

Follow me, please, to meet your doom.

Rhyn asked, the feeling of doom making him jittery.

It was wonderful having him back, but the feeling of doom persisted.

By that act, however, he pronounced his own doom.

She felt bad for scaring him but knew the alternative—people like Kris or Sasha finding out—would doom her.

It was truly tragic that his doom should have come at the moment when he had once more drawn together a great alliance in Europe, and when he possessed a popularity in England such as he had never before enjoyed.

Although the Bab g (4) g Y lonian religion presents a very gloomy view of the world of the dead, it is not without a few faint glimpses of a hope that a few mortals at least may gain deliverance from the dread doom.

When once a pack of wild dogs has put up any animal, that animal's doom is sealed.

But for barbarous nations old-age comes early, and after Dagoberts death (639), the monarchy went swiftly to its doom.

A Watcher appearing in his kitchen was the worst sign of impending doom yet.

I personally prefer the gleaming white carapace of the stormtrooper or snow trooper, very well animated as they run to their doom.

On top of this doom and gloom are the millennial cults about which Bowker stated, " There is nothing too weird " .

The meek doom mongers tend to argue there will be property real price falls from 40% - 70% .

Water is expelled through the gills creating a vacuum, which sucks the unsuspecting prey in to its doom.

Blimey... apologies for all of that... I'll just slink off back to my apocolyptic doom cult boards now.

In spite of the necessary allusions to the ominous theme of the curse, which would give any less great composer ample excuse for succumbing to the listener's sense of impending doom, Wagner's music speaks to us through the child-minds of the Rhine-daughters and terrifies us with the ruthless calm of Nature.

Jesus Himself now put a question as to the teaching of the scribes which identified the Messiah with " the Son of David "; and then He denounced those scribes whose pride and extortion and hypocrisy were preparing for them a terrible doom.

Natural herbs for panic attacks can help calm the awful feelings of racing heart and impending doom associated with panic attacks.

Today I am excited about life and not dreading it, have hope and not doom, the St. Francis prayer really sums up how I wish to be and hopefully how others perceive me to be.

These symptoms are often accompanied by anxiety; a rapid, irregular pulse; and a sense of impending doom.

Without having a plan you'll doom yourself to failure.

After the trip to the hospital, he'd drop her off for the Oracle to deal with and go back to work, where maybe he could shake his sense of doom by killing some vamps.

She'd had an impending sense of doom since meeting Gabriel on the street outside the faux police station, but this feeling was…defined.

She felt bad for scaring him but knew the alternative—people like Kris or Sasha finding out—would doom her.

Above the chancel arch, there is a doom painting.

Sheila is knitting bootees, June's knitting a matinee coat and Danny is offering to teach young Patrick John some hot Doom cheats.

The dark mark of fate and doom was on the threshold the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry.

These two verses seem to be the central plank as the two witnesses prophesy doom.

The reply spelled doom for most of the villages.

Feeling of impending doom, may not feel anxious all of the time.

Shall I show you a commerce that will save you from a painful doom?

See how obsessed you are now with a sense of inevitable doom.

But so far our companies have been coping well, and prophecies of doom from the strong pound have proved false.

As that country had been a major customer, the Tariff soon became the harbinger of doom for much of the South Wales industry.

Bands like Slayer and Metallica would take the crushing heaviness of doom metal and up the velocity of the music.

It's that West Coast beat maestro Daedelus again teamed up with MF Doom on ' Impeding Doom ' .

Again, for him not a problem but for you doom mongers just wishful thinking, and hence the down beat comments.

On my way to my dreaded doom I heard a neigh.

One legend tells how he lured a Revenue cutter to its doom in a dangerous cove of which he alone knew the soundings.

In plain words, it's true in a rather special way that there was no Doom of the Darnaways.