meet one's doom
Succumb to fate
To meet one's doom is to encounter death, destruction, or catastrophic failure—whatever fate has been waiting.
The phrase carries a sense of inevitability, as if the outcome was always approaching: The expedition met its doom in the mountains.
Often used with dramatic or literary flavor, sometimes ironically for minor setbacks.
- demiseCessation of existence
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- RagnarokNorse end of days
- disasterSudden ruinous event
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
Nemesis · kiss of death · annihilation · Armageddon · dread · face the music · perish · last breath · final curtain · extinction · expiration · obliteration · fatalism · Tartarus · mortality · resignation · end · fear
meet one's doomsurvive
Continue to exist
live · triumph · prevail · live to tell the tale · cheat death
meet one's doomescape
Flight from captivity
get away · slip away · break free · snatch victory from the jaws of defeat · make a getaway
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