- death or destruction; any terrible event that you cannot avoid
- to meet your doom
- She had a sense of impending doom (= felt that something very bad was going to happen).
Extra Examples- Fuel shortages spelled the doom of such huge gas-guzzling cars.
- He sealed his own doom by having an affair with another woman.
- The ordinary soldiers went to meet their doom with great bravery.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- impending
- certain
- spell
- doom and gloom
- a feeling of doom
- a sense of doom
- …
Word OriginOld English dōm ‘statute, judgement’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘to put in place’; related to do1.Take your English to the next level
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Idioms
See doom in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarydoom and gloom | gloom and doom
- a general feeling of having lost all hope, and of pessimism (= expecting things to go badly)
- Despite the obvious setbacks, it is not all doom and gloom for the England team.
- It's not all doom and gloom and there is lots to look forward to.
More Like This Rhyming pairs in idiomsRhyming pairs in idioms
prophet of doom | doom merchant
- a person who predicts that things will go very badly
- The prophets of doom who said television would kill off the book were wrong.
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