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1 doom
1. noun2. transitive verbmeet one's doom — vom Schicksal heimgesucht od. (geh.) ereilt werden
verurteilen; verdammendoom somebody/something to something — jemanden/eine Sache zu etwas verdammen od. verurteilen
be doomed to fail or failure — zum Scheitern verurteilt sein
* * *[du:m] 1. noun(fate, especially something terrible and final which is about to happen (to one): The whole place had an atmosphere of doom; His doom was inevitable.) das Verderben2. verb(to condemn; to make certain to come to harm, fail etc: His crippled leg doomed him to long periods of unemployment; The project was doomed to failure; He was doomed from the moment he first took drugs.) verurteilen* * *[du:m]I. nportent of \doom [böses] Zeichen des Schicksalsthe newspapers are always full of \doom and gloom these days ( iron hum) die Zeitungen sind heutzutage voll von Katastrophenmeldungenimpending \doom drohendes Unheiluntil the crack of \doom bis zum Jüngsten TagII. vtmounting debts \doomed the factory to closure wachsende Schulden machten die Schließung der Fabrik unumgänglich* * *[duːm]1. n(= fate) Schicksal nt; (= ruin) Verhängnis ntto send sb to his doom — jdn ins Verhängnis stürzen
it's all doom and gloom with him at the moment — er sieht zurzeit alles nur schwarz
it's not all gloom and doom — so schlimm ist es ja alles gar nicht
2. vtverurteilen, verdammenthe project was doomed from the start —
the doomed ship — das dem Untergang geweihte Schiff
doomed to die — dem Tode geweiht
this country was doomed to become a second-rate nation — dieses Land war dazu verdammt, zur Zweitrangigkeit abzusinken
* * *doom [duːm]A she met his doom sein Schicksal ereilte ihn2. a) Verderben n, Untergang m:send sb to their doom jemanden ins Verderben stürzenb) Tod m3. a) HIST Gesetz n, Erlass mc) fig Todesurteil nto zu;to do zu tun)* * *1. noun2. transitive verbmeet one's doom — vom Schicksal heimgesucht od. (geh.) ereilt werden
verurteilen; verdammendoom somebody/something to something — jemanden/eine Sache zu etwas verdammen od. verurteilen
be doomed to fail or failure — zum Scheitern verurteilt sein
* * *n.Verhängnis n.
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