dooms

[ doomz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

, Scot. and North England.

Origin of dooms¹

First recorded in 1805–15; doom + -s ¹

Cystic Fibrosis, a genetic malady, dooms its sufferers to a short and burdened life.

A thoroughly unsympathetic hero dooms a novel that might have been an appealing, savage take on the world.

It also dooms effective longer-term investment in infrastructure that is the prerequisite for global competitiveness.

Yet the tragedy of the past two years is that a flawed package in 2009 now dooms a better set of policies in 2011.

But fighting for fiscal responsibility does not have to be a polarizing process that dooms an executive to unpopularity.

Such an attachment of a small or weak toward a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.

He shall dooms pronounce, and strifes allay, holy peace establish, which shall ever be.

The guardians of the President had no time to hold Cabinet consultations over foregone dooms of death.

Such an attachment of small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellites of the latter.

In the field she fights like a virago; but her entrance thither was against the desire of the goddess, for it dooms her to die.

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