Meaning & use
Dooms
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Condemns someone or something to a grim, inescapable fate.
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A single mistake dooms the entire mission to failure.
Poor soil quality often dooms crops before the growing season even begins.
A note on using this word
"Doom" originally meant simply "judgment" or "law" in Old English, and only later narrowed to its current sense of a fatal or ruinous verdict.
Words with a similar meaning
condemnsconsigns
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Words with an opposite meaning
savesredeems
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