An archaic or dialectal word meaning to doom or condemn someone to an unhappy fate.
From Old English 'add-' (to) + 'doom' (judgment or fate), combining Germanic roots to express the act of pronouncing judgment or condemnation in Middle English.
This word is practically extinct, but it shows how Old English loved adding prefixes like 'ad-' to intensify meaning—'addoom' meant not just doom, but to doom thoroughly, like adding emphasis through word structure itself.
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