doom

Untergang, Verderben

Tod, Zerstörung oder ein anderes schlimmes Ende, das jemandem oder etwas bevorsteht.

In einfachem Englisch: Death, destruction, or another terrible end that someone or something faces.

• They feared their coming doom.
• The village faced certain doom as the fire approached.
• A sense of doom spread through the crowd.

Synonyme: destruction, death

Häufige Wendungen: meet your doom, certain doom, sense of doom, fall to your doom

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Offiziell entscheiden, dass jemand eine Strafe erhalten soll, besonders die Todesstrafe.

In einfachem Englisch: To officially decide that someone must suffer a punishment, especially death.

• The court doomed him to death.
• The prisoners were doomed to years of hard labor.
• A harsh judge could doom a thief to death.

So benutzt man es: doom someone to something (The judge doomed the prisoner to death.)

Synonyme: condemn, sentence

Häufige Wendungen: doom someone to death, doom a prisoner