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doom | adjudge | Related terms |

Doom is a related term of adjudge.


As a proper noun doom

is (video games|trademark) a popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the father of the genre.

As a verb adjudge is

to declare to be.

doom

English

Noun

  • Destiny, especially terrible.
  • * Dryden
    • Homely household task shall be her doom .
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  • An ill fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
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  • A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
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  • (countable, historical) A law.
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  • (countable, historical) A judgment or decision.
  • * Fairfax
    • And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom .
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  • (countable, historical) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
  • * J. R. Green
    • The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
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  • Death.
    • They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
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  • (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or , an artistic representation of it.

    • Derived terms

    * doom-and-gloomer, gloom-and-doomer * doomer * doomful * doomless * doomlike * doom metal * doomsday * doomsayer * doomster * doomy * entropic doom * foredoom * gloom and doom * predoom

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Antonyms

    * (ill fate) fortune

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
    • a criminal doomed to death
  • * Dryden
    • Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
  • To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
  • * Macaulay
    • A man of genius doomed to struggle with difficulties.
  • (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
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  • (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?
  • (archaic, US, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

    • Anagrams

    * mood

    See also

    * doomsday * doomsaying *

    adjudge

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To declare to be.
  • To deem or determine to be.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoy adjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt.}}
  • To award judicially; to assign.
  • *XIX c. , James Russell Lowell,
  • *:What doth the poor man's son inherit?
  • *:Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,
  • *:A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,
  • *:Content that from employment springs