Doomname/duːm/

• 1

  video-gamesA popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the progenitor of the genre.

  • Origin […] have used the canvas of a Doom-like first-person 3-D engine to paint a master work of their own in this comic-book action game.

doomnoun詞源 1/duːm/

• 1

  Destiny, especially terrible.

  • This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her doom,
  • "When should I expect him?" Roy said, resigned to his doom.
• 2

  An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.

  • 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.
  • Such paintings are inherently moody, and Elliott likes that-even as he carefully avoids dictating a specific mood. "Yesterday I painted the last light of the day-the trees looked pink, and the mountain's shadow was coming over them. It created a feeling of nostalgia... or impending doom... or still, quiet, peacefulness. It depends on the viewer's feelings about the scene, not just mine."
• 3

  Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.

  • 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.
  • Feeling doom, as we learned in the beautiful folk language of blacks who knew the truth of it, began with a single unexpected oddity — a redbird out of season, hail out of cloudless skies, dogs cowering under the house
• 4

  obsoleteA law.

  • "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

  obsoleteA judgment or decision.

  • And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.
  • But the day of doome shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is past.
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  obsoleteA sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.

  • The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
  • Appeals were by our ancient law styled falsing of dooms. They were to be entered immediately after doom or sentence was pronounced,
• 7

  Death.

  • They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
  • This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
• 8

  The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.

doomverb詞源 1/duːm/

• 1

  To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.

  • a criminal doomed to death
  • Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
• 2

  To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.

  • A man of genius […] doomed to struggle with difficulties.
• 3

  obsoleteTo judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

  • And while we know not that the King of heaven hath not doomed this place our safe retreat
• 4

  obsoleteTo ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.

  • Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?
• 5

  archaicTo assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

• 6

  To be extremely pessimistic about something.

  • 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
  • You can tell why Democrats were dooming like two months ago

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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