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Doom vs Doot - What's the difference?

doom | doot |

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 doot is

(chiefly|scotland) doubt.

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 *

    doot

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) doubt
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Mair'd be a bother; an' I doot not ye'll mak' it all richt, lad." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1917, author=John Hay Beith, title=All In It: K(1) Carries On, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=No doot he'll try to pass himself off as an officer, for to get better quarters!" }}
  • (chiefly, Scotland) think
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=James C. Welsh, title=The Underworld, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="I think my pipe's on the mantelshelf," returned Geordie, "but I doot it's empty." }}

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