I am not going to intrude like the voice of doom, commenting on her choices, her motives, her failings.No one wants to be the bearer of bad tidings, or the herald of impending doom.When, how-ever, Pentheus only heaped insults and threats upon him, Dionysus left him to his doom.His religion is as much as anything the regression to a past of obedience, disobedience, sin and doom.a prophet of doom (=someone who says that something bad is going to happen ) The prophets of doom were confounded when the team won the championship.
#Doom definition full
doom and gloom/gloom and doom (=bad things that may happen in the future ) The newspapers are always full of doom and gloom.
phrases a sense/feeling of doom Everyone in the business has a feeling of doom at the moment. meet your doom (=die in an unpleasant way ) At the end of the movie, the bad guys met their doom. verbs spell doom (=mean that something will not continue to exist ) Many people predicted that Internet growth would spell doom for the traditional media. certain/inevitable doom (=sure to happen ) Some environmentalists have concluded that the planet faces certain doom. COLLOCATIONS adjectives impending doom (=likely to happen soon ) With a terrible sense of impending doom, he opened the door and went in. doom and gloom/gloom and doom (=when there seems to be no hope for the future ) Despite these poor figures, it’s not all doom and gloom. Thousands of soldiers met their doom (=died ) on this very field. sense/feeling of doom spell doom for something (=mean that something will be unable to continue or survive ) The recession spelled doom for many small businesses. ○○ noun END something very bad that is going to happen, or the fact that it is going to happen A sense of impending doom (=coming very soon ) gripped her.Like old Charles Foster Kane, they are doomed to stalk the dark, cavernous halls of their Xanadus.If he lived he would be doomed to spend the war as a prisoner.Once again his efforts were doomed to failure.It was now obvious that repeated military efforts by a single state were doomed to failure.But his resistance was doomed to failure as the courtiers' position was confirmed by several royal decrees.Studies of other disorders show that medications given without such support likely are doomed to fail.A tenth of people who drank such water are doomed to die, say doctors.It is lazy to assume that Bush is doomed to fail or that he and his administration are unequipped for the job.The threat of a costly legal battle doomed the proposal.But this attempt to carry on as though nothing had happened was doomed from the start.They had felt she was doomed from the beginning.Yet in the longer term a regime resting upon the narrowing social base of the landowning nobility was doomed.None of this means that Gore is doomed.Half of us are ruthless and the other half are doomed.doomed adjective passengers on the doomed flight Examples from the Corpus doom be doomed to do something We are all doomed to die in the end. ○○ verb FAIL DESTROY to make someone or something certain to fail, die, be destroyed etc be doomed to failure/defeat/extinction etc Many species are doomed to extinction.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English doom doom 1 / duːm /
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