Doom to death or doom to die?

[Marina Gaidar]

How is it proper to say, to doom smb to death or to doom smb to die?

 

[bhaisahab]

How is it proper to say, to doom smb to death or to doom smb to die?

We would usually use "condemn" there. "He was condemned to death".

 

[charliedeut]

How is it proper to say, to doom smb to death or to doom smb to die?

As our lives are finite, aren't we all doomed to die some day? ;-) (just a joke, I'm not trying to get philosophical or anything of the like).

 

[Marina Gaidar]

We would usually use "condemn" there. "He was condemned to death".

I always thought that "to comdemn to death" sounded more like a decision of a court. My context here can be rendered in these few words: "We can't leave this child here and doom it to die/death".

 

[Raymott]

I always thought that "to comdemn to death" sounded more like a decision of a court. My context here can be rendered in these few words: "We can't leave this child here and doom it to die/death".

That's not natural. We'd say, "We can't just leave the child here and let it die."

 

[billmcd]

How is it proper to say, to doom smb to death or to doom smb to die?

If you must use "doom", use it with "die".

 

[Gillnetter]

As our lives are finite, aren't we all doomed to die some day? ;-) (just a joke, I'm not trying to get philosophical or anything of the like).

I don't believe that we are doomed to die (well, maybe some of us are) as much as we are fated or destined to die.

(Doom, despair, excessive agony. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. )

 

[emsr2d2]

I always thought that "to comdemn to death" sounded more like a decision of a court. My context here can be rendered in these few words: "We can't leave this child here and doom it to die/death".

We can't leave this child here. We would be sending him to his doom.
We can't leave this child here to die.
We can't leave this child to its fate.
We can't leave this child here. We would be dooming it to die.

(The last example is my least favourite and I think the least natural.)