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单词 doom
释义

doom

noun
/duːm/
/duːm/
[uncountable]Idioms
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  1. death or destruction; any terrible event that you cannot avoid
    • to meet your doom
    • She had a sense of impending doom (= felt that something very bad was going to happen).
    Extra Examples
    • Fuel shortages spelled the doom of such huge gas-guzzling cars.
    • He sealed his own doom by having an affair with another woman.
    • The ordinary soldiers went to meet their doom with great bravery.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • impending
    • certain
    verb + doom
    • spell
    phrases
    • doom and gloom
    • a feeling of doom
    • a sense of doom
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    Word OriginOld English dōm ‘statute, judgement’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘to put in place’; related to do1.
Idioms
doom and gloom | gloom and doom
  1. a general feeling of having lost all hope, and of pessimism (= expecting things to go badly)
    • Despite the obvious setbacks, it is not all doom and gloom for the England team.
    • It's not all doom and gloom and there is lots to look forward to.
    More Like This Rhyming pairs in idiomsRhyming pairs in idioms
    • doom and gloom
    • fair and square
    • high and dry
    • huff and puff
    • name and shame
    • slice and dice
    • thrills and spills
    • wear and tear
    • wheel and deal
    • wine and dine
prophet of doom | doom merchant
  1. a person who predicts that things will go very badly
    • The prophets of doom who said television would kill off the book were wrong.

doom

verb
/duːm/
/duːm/
[usually passive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they doom
/duːm/
/duːm/
he / she / it dooms
/duːmz/
/duːmz/
past simple doomed
/duːmd/
/duːmd/
past participle doomed
/duːmd/
/duːmd/
-ing form dooming
/ˈduːmɪŋ/
/ˈduːmɪŋ/
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  1. to make somebody/something certain to fail, suffer, die, etc.
    • be doomed to something The plan was doomed to failure.
    • be doomed to do something The plan was doomed to fail.
    • be doomed The marriage was doomed from the start.
    Topics Difficulty and failurec1
    Word OriginOld English dōm ‘statute, judgement’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘to put in place’; related to do1.
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