doomsdaynoun [ U ]
uk/ˈduːmz.deɪ/us/ˈduːmz.deɪ/the end of the world, or a time when something very bad will happen:
Ecologists predict a doomsday scenario (= a time when death and destruction will happen) if global warming continues to increase at the present rate.
You could talk till/until doomsday (= for a very long time), but they will never change their minds.
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Ends and endings
- accomplishment
- break
- break up
- cessation
- coda
- completion
- culminate
- death
- demise
- denouement
- end
- ending
- expiry
- fag
- finalize
- finish
- it'll (all) end in tears idiom
- last hurrah
- later
- termination
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