Definitions for doom

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IPA: /dum/

Doom is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in doom (dmoo).

Definitions for doom

noun

  1. fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune:
  2. ruin; death:
  3. a judgment, decision, or sentence, especially an unfavorable one:
  4. the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.
  5. Obsolete. a statute, enactment, or legal judgment.

verb (used with object)

  1. to destine, especially to an adverse fate.
  2. to pronounce judgment against; condemn.
  3. to ordain or fix as a sentence or fate.

Origin of doom

before 900; Middle English dome, dōm, Old English dōm judgment, law; cognate with Old Norse dōmr, Gothic dōms; compare Sanskrit dhā́man, Greek thémis law; see do1<

Examples for doom

Many view it as a man drawn to his doom by his infatuation for a younger woman, and youth in general.

“Every sad and bitter tale has its hour when the doom inevitable in the long run becomes inescapable in the short,” Kempton wrote.

When summer comes, adult beetles attack and larva feed in the cambium layer, girdling the trees and sealing their doom.

The star that guides it is our guide, and in the tempest that menaces we behold our own doom!

My doom is fixed—fixed by my own folly—my own rash, headstrong folly.

And that may doom any shot Hillary Clinton has at the presidency.

His voice had become weighty with authority and measured with doom.

In the fire of last night the hand of Allah wrote their doom.

"I don't see anything like a doom about it, my dear," said he.

Thankfully, I have a high-speed Internet connection, so my doom window was but fleeting.

Word Value for doom
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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