doom
noun
fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune.
are dooming
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present progressiveof doom.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The modern dragons, it has been said, are dooming "religion and poetry."
From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
Do you realize to what sufferings you are dooming the hearts that love you, and whose happiness is bound up in yours?
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
"The good father hath no suspicion that these old wretches are dooming him to death," said Ako to Du Gay.
From Heroes of the Middle West The French by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
