doom
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Is doom a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable, obsolete) A law.Examples: ""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.""countableobsolete
2. (countable, obsolete) A judgment or decision.Examples: "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."; "Kings are spoken of as if they had a store of "Themistes" ready to hand for use; but it must be distinctly understood that they are not laws, but judgments, or, to take the exact Teutonic equivalent, "dooms.""countableobsolete
3. (countable, obsolete) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.Examples: "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,"; "The billiard sharp whom anyone catches / His doom’s extremely hard— / He’s made to dwell— / In a dungeon cell / On a spot that’s always barred."countableobsolete
4. (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.capitalizedcountablesometimesuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.Examples: "a criminal doomed to death"; "Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls."; "There was certainly plenty of badass Arya before and after—more on that soon—but here was Arya the living, breathing human, outnumbered and petrified of making the one slight wrong move that would doom her."transitive
2. (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.Examples: "And while we know not that the King of heaven hath not doomed this place our safe retreat"obsolete
3. (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.Examples: "Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?"obsolete
4. (archaic, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.New-Englandarchaic
phrase (English)
1. (Internet slang) Initialism of didn't organize, only moved; used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize.Examples: "I tried to organize my stuff but just ended up making a big doom pile."; "One day in April of 2021, Lindsey Bee decided it was time to deal with the laundry "doom piles" that had formed around her house. So she did what many people do when faced with a boring task. She turned to TikTok."; "While digital clutter may not be physical, like the "doom piles" and junk drawers in your home, the anxiety and distress it induces is real, said Kerry Lakey, a lecturer in psychology at Northumbria University in England, who studies behavior around digital data."Internetabbreviationalt-ofinitialism
name (English)
1. (video games) A popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the progenitor of the genre.Examples: "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."
Definition source: Wiktionary