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# doom

«doom» in Mova's school dictionary: **Death, ruin or a terrible fate that cannot be avoided** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (doom — uncountable); verb (doom, dooms, doomed, dooming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) Death, ruin or a terrible fate that cannot be avoided. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#m1)

2) (verb) To make something certain to fail or suffer: «The plan was doomed from the start». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#m2)

3) (noun, informal) «doom and gloom» — a feeling that everything will go wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#m3)

4) (old, Bible) Judgement, especially the Last Judgement: «Doomsday» or «the crack of doom». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and films: heroes face doom; villains plot doom; «impending doom» builds suspense. In history: the Domesday Book (an old English survey; not about the end of the world). In everyday talk: «doom and gloom» about the weather or tests; «doomscrolling» (reading lots of bad news online). Phrases: «doomed to fail», «sense of doom», «spell doom for», «prophet of doom».

### examples

- The ship was doomed when it hit the iceberg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#x1)
- The knight rode bravely to meet his doom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#x2)
- Too much rain could spell doom for the picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#x3)
- A feeling of doom came over me before the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#x4)
- Stop the doom and gloom — it might be sunny tomorrow! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#x5)
- Without water, the plants were doomed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#x6)
- The dragon roared, "Your doom is near!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#x7)
- “Heavy is my doom!” he groaned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/#x8)

### note

Uncountable noun. Regular verb: doomed. «Doomed» (adjective) means sure to fail or die. Informal «doomscrolling» is a modern word. The Domesday Book is spelled differently.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «doom» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doom/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.