Synonyms for doom
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1. doom

   To condemn is to pass judicial sentence or render judgment or decision against. We may censure silently; we condemn ordinarily by open and formal utterance. Condemn is more final than blame or censure; a condemned criminal has had his trial; a condemned building can not stand; a condemned ship can not sail. A person is convicted when his guilt is made clearly manifest to others; in somewhat archaic use, a person is said to be convicted when guilt is brought clearly home to his own conscience (convict in this sense being allied with convince, which see under PERSUADE); in legal usage one is said to be convicted only by the verdict of a jury. In stating the penalty of an offense, the legal word sentence is now more common than condemn; as, he was sentenced to imprisonment; but it is good usage to say, he was condemned to imprisonment. To denounce is to make public or official declaration against, especially in a violent and threatening manner.

   From the pulpits in the northern States Burr was denounced as an assassin.

   Coffin Building the Nation ch. 10, p. 137. [Harper & Bros. '83.]

   To doom is to condemn solemnly and consign to evil or destruction or to predetermine to an evil destiny; an inferior race in presence of a superior is doomed to subjugation or extinction. Compare ARRAIGN; REPROVE.

   Synonyms:
   blame, censure, condemn, convict, denounce, reprobate, reprove, sentence

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, applaud, approve, exonerate, justify, pardon, pardon, praise

   Preposition:
   The bandit was condemned to death for his crime.

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1. doom

   Synonyms:
   judgment, fate, sentence, verdict, condemnation, lot, destiny

   Antonyms:
   liberation, respite, escape, pardon, acquittal, approval

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1. doom, doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the worldverb

   an unpleasant or disastrous destiny

   "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"

   Synonyms:
   eschaton, doomsday, crack of doom, end of the world, day of reckoning

2. destine, fate, doom, designateverb

   decree or designate beforehand

   "She was destined to become a great pianist"

   Synonyms:
   denominate, destine, intend, depute, delegate, fate, show, specify, indicate, sentence, point, designate, condemn, assign

3. sentence, condemn, doomverb

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

   "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

   Synonyms:
   condemn, fate, sentence, excoriate, designate, reprobate, decry, destine, objurgate

4. doomverb

   make certain of the failure or destruction of

   "This decision will doom me to lose my position"

   Synonyms:
   sentence, designate, destine, fate, condemn

Matched Categories

1. • Assure
   • Declare
   • Law
   • Ordain

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1. doomverb

   Synonyms:
   condemn, sentence, pronounce sentence on

2. doomverb

   Synonyms:
   destine, appoint, decree

3. doomnoun

   Synonyms:
   sentence, judgment, condemnation, judicial decree

4. doomnoun

   Synonyms:
   fate, destiny, lot

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1. doomnoun

   Synonyms:
   judicial sentence, judgment, destiny, death

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1. List of paraphrases for "doom":

   destiny, fate, apocalypse, misfortune, curse, ruin, doorn, loss

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How to use doom in a sentence?

1. Don DeLillo:

   Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

2. Michelle McKeown of Oakland:

   It feels eerie, apocalyptic and frightening, i've lived in Bay Area since 1988 and never experienced such doom coming from the sky.

3. Nancy Davis:

   It is definitely a Bizarro type of world. The bond market is pricing in doom and gloom while stocks are partying.

4. Joseph de Maistre:

   In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

5. Lisa Kott:

   Watching your child suffering when you're helpless is one of the worst things you can experience in life, i know that death is on the doorstop. I'm not going to let him in, and he's going to be waiting there for a very long time. The difference between us and any other family is that they don't see him at the doorstep. I see him, and in true Southern fashion, I will give him a glass of iced tea while he waits. Because we're still going to dance and have fun in the presence of all that. It's not going to be doom and gloom in our house.