DOOM

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Traducere în limba română

doom I. substantiv

1. soartă, destin (de obicei tragic).

2. moarte, pieire, sfârşit;

the day on which he met his doom ziua în care şi-a aflat sfârşitul.

3. (înv.) osândă, sentinţă, condamnare.

4. (ist.) lege, pravilă, decret.

5. (bis.) judecata de apoi;

the crack of doom sfârşitul lumii anunţat prin sunete şi surle; v. doomsday.

doom II. verb tranzitiv

1. (to) a sorti, a destina (cu dat.), a condamna (la);

doomed to perish sortit pieirii.

2. (mai ales la part. trec.) a osândi, a sorti nenorocirii;

he knew he was doomed se ştia condamnat / pierdut.

3. (înv.) a da / a pronunţa o sentinţă de condamnare împotriva (cuiva).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It's my doom, and I can't help it.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I was again a prisoner, and the net of doom was closing round me more closely.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Of late, Jane—only—only of late—I began to see and acknowledge the hand of God in my doom.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs and doomed him to waste in wretchedness!

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I know all up to a certain point; and I see already, though your diary only took me to 7 September, how poor Lucy was beset, and how her terrible doom was being wrought out.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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