doom

I UK [duːm] / US [dum] noun [uncountable]

a bad event, usually death, destruction, or complete failure, that will happen in the future and cannot be avoided

He predicted doom for any country that did not act immediately.

impending doom (= likely to happen soon):

A sense of impending doom hung over the meeting.

meet your doom (= die in an unpleasant way):

the famous castle in Denmark where Hamlet met his doom

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- doom and gloom

- spell doom for

See:

prophet

II UK [duːm] / US [dum] verb [transitive, usually passive]
Word forms "doom":
present tense I/you/we/they doom he/she/it dooms present participle dooming past tense doomed past participle doomed

to make someone or something certain to fail, be destroyed, be extremely unhappy etc

doom someone/something to something:

The invention of the train doomed the canals to extinction.

doom someone/something to do something:

She felt she was doomed to work in an office all her life.

be doomed to failure:

These schemes are always doomed to failure.