english
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noun
ruin:
Their doom was complete and fatal.
verb
destined:
They are doomed to fail.
Simple Definitions
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Phrase(s): doom someone or something to something
to destine someone or something to something unpleasant. • The judgment doomed her to a life in prison. • Your insistence on including that rigid clause doomed the contract to failure.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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doom
adjectives
impending doom
(= likely to happen soon )
• With a terrible sense of impending doom, he opened the door and went in.
certain/inevitable doom
(= sure to happen )
• Some environmentalists have concluded that the planet faces certain 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.
meet your doom
(= die in an unpleasant way )
• At the end of the movie, the bad guys met their doom.
phrases
a sense/feeling of doom
• Everyone in the business has a feeling of doom at the moment.
doom and gloom/gloom and doom
(= bad things that may happen in the future )
• The newspapers are always full of doom and gloom.
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.
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noun ADJ. approaching, impending VERB + DOOM spell Fuel shortages spelt doom for such huge gas-guzzling cars. PHRASES a feeling/sense of doom As I approached the exam room, I had a feeling of impending doom.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary