What is another word for dooms?

Pronunciation: [dˈuːmz] (IPA)

Dooms is a word that is commonly used to indicate the final judgment upon someone or something. There are many synonyms that can be used in place of the word dooms. For example, the word "devastates" is often used in the context of the destruction or ruin of something. Other synonyms include "decimates," which suggests the destruction or elimination of a large portion of something, "ruins," which implies the complete destruction of something through negligence or intentional action, and "annihilates," which suggests complete destruction or obliteration. Each of these words conveys different degrees of finality and consequences, but they all describe a sense of impending doom or disastrous outcome.

What are the hypernyms for Dooms?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Dooms

Can you imagine the state of mind in which a man dooms himself to death with the object of delivering someone he hates to the hangman?
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Toiling up from stair to stair Peasant girls their burdens bear; Sunburnt daughters of the soil, Stately figures tall and straight, What inexorable fate dooms them to this life of toil?
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is He who wills blood for blood; who dooms the guilty to a merited death.
"Hand and Ring"
Anna Katharine Green

Famous quotes with Dooms

  • No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
    George Eliot
  • A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
    Henry A. Kissinger
  • No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
    George Eliot
  • Year by year, month by month, the plight of our fragmentary and precarious civilization becomes more serious. Fascism abroad grows more bold and ruthless in its foreign ventures, more tyrannical toward its own citizens, more barbarian in its contempt for the life of the mind. Even in our own country we have reason to fear a tendency toward militarization and the curtailment of civil liberty. Moreover, while the decades pass, no resolute step is taken to alleviate the injustice of our social order. Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
    Olaf Stapledon
  • He dooms himself. He is his own sad jest.When, trussed and bound and nailed, You sacrifice your life, your liberty You hang yourself upon the tenterhook. Pull free!
    Ray Bradbury

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