Crossword clues for dooming
dooming
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doom \Doom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dooming.]
To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.]
--Milton.-
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.
Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
--Dryden. -
To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?
--Shak. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England]
--J. Pickering.-
To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of doom English)
Usage examples of "dooming".
What the Seven Sleepers did not understand and refused to understand and cared nothing for was that by dooming the Lost Ones they were dooming Earth.
The sentence of the gods dooming her to such a fate dissolved all engagements, as death itself would have done.
She was the daughter of OEdipus and Jocasta, who, with all their descendants, were the victims of an unrelenting fate, dooming them to destruction.
While sending her out might endanger her, holding her back might be taken incorrectly by officials on Thyferra, dooming that deal.
Non-human members of the Alliance would have fled, dooming their own populations.
If you kill me, Si Cwanif you manage to do so, which I very much doubtthen you will be dooming everyone you see in this room to a very violent death.
But if he didn’t try it, he might be dooming his entire vessel and its crew.