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doom

/duːm/
noun
  1. Destiny, especially terrible.

  2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.

  3. A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.

Antonymsfortune
verb
  1. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.

    "a criminal doomed to death"

  2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.

  3. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

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