Definition of doom

• v. t. - Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
• v. t. - That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
• v. t. - Ruin; death.
• v. t. - Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
• v. t. - To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
• v. t. - To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
• v. t. - To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
• v. t. - To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
• v. t. - To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.