doom

名词 n. 动词 v. 短语

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Destiny, especially terrible. countable,uncountable
    — This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her doom,
  2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable. countable,uncountable
    — unlike Vincent, he wasn't quite taken in by the outbreak of hopefulness on all sides. After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of doom still hung undisturbed over the project.
  3. Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair. countable,uncountable
    — She halted her pacing steps as the ugly significance of Nicholas Caulfield's pending arrival washed over her. Ruin. Destitution. Doom settled like a heavy stone in her chest.
  4. A law. countable,obsolete
    — "What ye will not that other men should do unto you, that do ye not unto other men." "From this one doom," comments Alfred, "a man may bethink him how he should judge every one rightly: he needs no other doombook."
  5. A judgment or decision. countable,obsolete
    — And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.
  6. A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour. countable,obsolete
    — The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
  7. Death. countable,uncountable
    — They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
  8. The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof. capitalized,countable,sometimes,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn. transitive
    — a criminal doomed to death
  2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
    — A man of genius […] doomed to struggle with difficulties.
  3. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. obsolete
    — And while we know not that the King of heaven hath not doomed this place our safe retreat
  4. To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. obsolete
    — Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?
  5. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. New-England,archaic
  6. To be extremely pessimistic about something. Internet,intransitive
    — Every time I see people dooming over North America I just assume its because they've never seen the parts of it that look like this
短语
  1. Initialism of didn't organize, only moved; used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize. Internet,abbreviation,alt-of,initialism
    — I tried to organize my stuff but just ended up making a big doom pile.

词形变化

dooms plural dooms present,singular,third-person dooming participle,present doomed participle,past doomed past

词源

From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.
Cognates
Compare Dutch doem (“condemnation, doom; judgement”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dom (“judgement”), Faroese and Icelandic dómur (“judgement”), Gothic 𐌳𐍉𐌼𐍃 (dōms, “insight, judgement”); also Ancient Greek θωμός (thōmós, “heap”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian ду́ма (dúma, “thought”), Polish duma (“pride”). Doublet of duma. See also deem.
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