An unpleasant or disastrous destiny:
— Everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it.

synoniemen: day of reckoning, doomsday, end of the world.

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption^†, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; eboulement [Fr.], smash, havoc, delabrement [Fr.], debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement [Fr.], wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout.    extinction, annihilation; destruction of life etc. 361; knock-down blow; doom, crack of doom.    destroying etc. v.; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition etc. (abrogation) 756; biblioclasm^†; sacrifice; ravage, razzia^†; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution etc. 146; extirpation etc. (extraction) 301; beginning of the end, commencement de la fin [Fr.], road to ruin; dilapidation etc. (deterioration) 659; sabotage.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 601: involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination.    necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion etc. 744; subjection etc. 749; stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity; fate; what must be.    destiny, destination; fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune; fatalism; inevitableness etc. adj.; spell etc. 993.    star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice.    last shift, last resort; dernier ressort [Fr.]; pis aller etc. (substitute) 147 [Fr.]; necessaries etc. (requirement) 630.    necessarian^†, necessitarian^†; fatalist; automaton.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 360: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.    end of life etc. 67, cessation of life etc. 142, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life etc. 359.    death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne [Fr.]; rigor mortis [Lat.]; Stygian shore.    King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom etc. (necessity) 601; Hell's grim Tyrant" [Pope]. euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease etc. (disease) 655; death blow etc. (killing) 361.    necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song etc. (lamentation) 839.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 67: end, close, termination; desinence^†, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail etc. (rear) 235; verge etc. (edge) 231; tag, peroration; bonne bouche [Fr.]; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard.    consummation, denouement; finish etc. (completion) 729; fate; doom, doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain; goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry^†, extinction, extermination; death etc. 360; end of all things; finality; eschatology.    break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de grace, deathblow; knock-out-blow; sockdolager [U.S.].    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: ondergang

Decree or designate beforehand.

synoniemen: designate, destine, fate.

Roget 601: lie under a necessity; befated^†, be doomed, be destined &c., in for, under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate etc. n.. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to help.    destine, doom, foredoom, devote; predestine, preordain; cast a spell etc. 992; necessitate; compel etc. 744.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 152: impend; hang over, lie over; threaten, loom, await, come on, approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain; predestine, doom, have in store for.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: aanwijzen, bestemmen, reserveren, toebedenken, toedenken, uittrekken

Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law.

synoniemen: condemn, sentence.

Roget 971: condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit^†.    disapprove etc. 932; accuse etc. 938.    stand condemned.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 480: judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind.    deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction, weet^†, ween^†.    form an estimate, estimate, appreciate, value, count, assess, rate, rank, account; regard, consider, think of; look upon etc. (believe) 484; review; size up [Slang].    settle; pass an opinion, give an opinion; decide, try, pronounce, rule; pass judgment, pass sentence; sentence, doom; find; give judgment, deliver judgment; adjudge, adjudicate; arbitrate, award, report; bring in a verdict; make absolute, set a question at rest; confirm etc. (assent) 488.    comment, criticize, kibitz; pass under review etc. (examine) 457; investigate etc. (inquire) 461.    hold the scales, sit in judgment; try judgment, hear a cause.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: berechten, rechtspreken, veroordelen, vonnissen

Make certain of the failure or destruction of.