• IPA: /duːm/

doom

1. Destiny, especially terrible.
   • a. 1701, John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer's Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: Printed for J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, OCLC 863244003 ↗, page 415 ↗:

     This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her doom,

2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
3. A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
4. (countable, obsolete) A law.
5. (countable, obsolete) A judgment or decision.
6. (countable, obsolete) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.

   • The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.

   • 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “A More Humane Mikado”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], OCLC 25083293 ↗, Act II, page 36 ↗:

     The billiard sharp whom anyone catches / His doom’s extremely hard— / He’s made to dwell— / In a dungeon cell / On a spot that’s always barred.

7. Death.

   They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.

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

• (undesirable fate) fortune

• deem
• -dom

• Italian: sentenza
• Russian: Стра́шный суд

• Italian: sentenza, giudizio, decisione
• Russian: пригово́р

• Italian: sentenza, penalità, condanna
• Russian: пригово́р

• French: mort
• German: Untergang
• Italian: morte
• Russian: смерть

• Italian: sorte, fato, avversità, presagio
• Russian: рок

• French: ruine, perte
• Italian: rovina
• Russian: у́часть

• German: drohendes Unheil
• Italian: presagio
• Russian: предчу́вствие

doom (dooms, present participle dooming; past and past participle doomed)

1. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.

   a criminal doomed to death

   • Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.

2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
   • 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Goldsmith,_Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver]”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

     A man of genius […] doomed to struggle with difficulties.

3. (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
4. (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:

     Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?

5. (archaic, US, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

• French: condamner
• German: verurteilen
• Russian: обрека́ть
• Spanish: condenar

1. (video games) A popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the progenitor of the genre.