Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - doom

~1 v T usually passive to make someone or something certain to fail, die, be destroyed etc  (doom sth to sth)  (The species is doomed to extinction. | doom sb/sth to do sth)  (Marx's theory was that capitalist economies are eventually doomed to collapse. | doomed to failure)  (The marriage seems doomed to failure.) - doomed adj ~2 n the end of something especially by destruction or death, that will soon come and that you cannot avoid  (a terrible sense of impending doom | meet your doom)  (Thousands of soldiers met their doom on this very field. | spell doom for (=mean that something will end))  (The budget cuts spelled doom for the mining community. | doom and gloom (=a feeling that the future will be terrible))