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say it: doom
doom is a verb and noun meaning "decree or designate beforehand". It carries 4 recorded senses.
make certain of the failure or destruction of
“This decision will doom me to lose my position”
an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
“everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it”
“that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for doom come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.