dooming

Verb

doom (third-person singular simple present dooms, present participle dooming, simple past and past participle doomed)

1. (transitive) To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
   • a criminal doomed to death

   Synonyms:

   deem, sentence, adjudge, convict, condemn, damn, judge

2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
   • A man of genius […] doomed to struggle with difficulties.1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green...

   Synonyms:

   curse, fate, foreordain, preordain

3. (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
   • And while we know not that the King of heaven hath not doomed this place our safe retreat1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...

   Synonyms:

   adjudge, deem, rule on, adjudicate, arbitrate, hear, judge, settle, try

4. (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
   • Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

   Synonyms:

   penalize, sanction

5. (New-England, archaic) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
6. (Internet, intransitive) To be extremely pessimistic about something.
   • Every time I see people dooming over North America I just assume its because they've never seen the parts of it that look like this2023 September 14, @alanthefisher, X (post), archived from the original on 07 May 2026

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