Thesaurus: doom

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1. v. t. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
2. v. t. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
3. v. t. Ruin; death.
4. v. t. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
5. v. t. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
6. v. t. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
7. v. t. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
8. v. t. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
9. v. t. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
10. n. an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
11. v. decree or designate beforehand
12. v. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law