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[ doomz ] / dumz /
adverb Scot. and North England.very; extremely: used as a euphemism for damned. Origin of doomsFirst recorded in 1805–15; doom + -s1 Words nearby doomsdoom, doom and gloom, doomful, doom-laden, doom palm, dooms, doomsayer, doomsday, Doomsday Book, doomsdayer, doomsman Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for doomsCystic Fibrosis, a genetic malady, dooms its sufferers to a short and burdened life. NHS Turns Down Free Lifesaving Drug|Megan McArdle|October 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST It also dooms effective longer-term investment in infrastructure that is the prerequisite for global competitiveness. Larry Summers’ Impossible Stimulus Dream|Zachary Karabell|June 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST Yet the tragedy of the past two years is that a flawed package in 2009 now dooms a better set of policies in 2011. Larry Summers’ Impossible Stimulus Dream|Zachary Karabell|June 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST But fighting for fiscal responsibility does not have to be a polarizing process that dooms an executive to unpopularity. GOP Govs' Popularity Plummets|John Avlon|May 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST
That is the curse of a society that dooms its citizens to weary, toil-burdened lives, robbed of the joy and beauty of living. Plain English|Marian Wharton A father should hesitate long before he dooms a young child to such a "home" as this. Folly as It Flies|Fanny Fern Better to be silent than to call his attention to you; he will send you dooms, not fortune! Queen of the Black Coast|Robert E. Howard The dead man had been enabled by it, to escape that most horrible of dooms, as I was too well aware, the slow death at the stake. Buckskin Mose|Buckskin Mose Yet even so, our Wessex dooms are not such as take life but for the most plain cause, and that seldom as may be. A Prince of Cornwall|Charles W. Whistler
Words related to doomscalamity, downfall, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, sentence, decree, death, end, destiny, ruin, destination, kismet, lot, predestination, circumstance, condemnation, judgment, tragedy, destruction |