DOOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doom mean? 

• DOOM (noun)
  The noun DOOM has 1 sense:

1. an unpleasant or disastrous destiny

  Familiarity information: DOOM used as a noun is very rare.

• DOOM (verb)
  The verb DOOM has 3 senses:

1. decree or designate beforehand

2. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law

3. make certain of the failure or destruction of

  Familiarity information: DOOM used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unpleasant or disastrous destiny

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

day of reckoning; doom; doomsday; end of the world

Context example:

that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world

Hypernyms ("doom" is a kind of...):

destiny; fate (an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future)

Derivation:

doom (make certain of the failure or destruction of)

• DOOM (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they doom    ... he / she / it dooms   
Past simple: doomed   
Past participle: doomed   
-ing form: dooming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decree or designate beforehand

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

designate; destine; doom; fate

Context example:

She was destined to become a great pianist

Hypernyms (to "doom" is one way to...):

ordain (issue an order)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

condemn; doom; sentence

Context example:

He was condemned to ten years in prison

Hypernyms (to "doom" is one way to...):

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

"Doom" entails doing...:

convict (find or declare guilty)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "doom"):

foredoom (doom beforehand)

reprobate (abandon to eternal damnation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make certain of the failure or destruction of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

This decision will doom me to lose my position

Hypernyms (to "doom" is one way to...):

assure; ensure; guarantee; insure; secure (make certain of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

doom (an unpleasant or disastrous destiny)

 Context examples 

We seem to be drifting to some terrible doom.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At the heart of the Saturn Nebula lies the doomed star, visible in this image, which is in the process of becoming a white dwarf.

(The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula, ESO)

I write to you, encompassed by peril and ignorant whether I am ever doomed to see again dear England and the dearer friends that inhabit it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Long John's eyes burned in his head as he took the chart, but by the fresh look of the paper I knew he was doomed to disappointment.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"'Prunes and prisms' are my doom, and I may as well make up my mind to it. I came here to moralize, not to hear things that make me skip to think of."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He laughed loudly at his own sally, but Hans's face was frozen into a sullen ghastliness that nothing less than the trump of doom could have broken.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He had a vague feeling of impending doom.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And yet when Utterson remarked on his ill looks, it was with an air of great firmness that Lanyon declared himself a doomed man.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I wish I had attended to it—but—(with a sinking voice and a heavy sigh) I seem to have been doomed to blindness.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She was not doomed, however, to be long in ignorance of his measures.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)