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dooming

verb , present participle of doom

Synonyms and Antonyms of dooming

1 to determine the fate of in advance

the actor felt that he was doomed to be forever remembered for that one terrible performance

Synonyms of dooming

destining, fating, foredooming, foreordaining, ordaining, predestining, predetermining, preordaining

Words Related to dooming

auguring, forecasting, foretelling, predicting, presaging, prognosticating, prophesying

preconceiving, prejudging

condemning, sentencing

boding, foreboding (also forboding), portending

anticipating, divining, foreknowing, foreseeing

2 to impose a judicial punishment on

doomed the murderer to life in prison without the possibility of parole

Synonyms of dooming

condemning, damning, sentencing

Words Related to dooming

adjudging, judging

castigating, censuring, chastening, chastising, correcting, disciplining, penalizing, punishing

concluding, deciding, decreeing, determining, finding, opining, resolving, ruling

Near Antonyms of dooming

pardoning, reprieving

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