doomscrolls
- 1Third-person singular simple present of doomscroll.
Each evening she doomscrolls through disaster headlines until she can barely sleep.
Whenever a crisis breaks, my roommate doomscrolls for hours and refuses to put the phone down.
Note
A regular present form on a very young verb: the -s attaches just as it does to scroll. The verb itself was pulled back out of the noun doomscrolling, which still explains it, and it works with or without an object: she doomscrolls for hours, or he doomscrolls the news. As a recent coinage it still sounds new, and a writer can expect readers to notice it.
He doomscrolls the election coverage before he has even had breakfast.
Since deleting the app, she rarely doomscrolls anymore.
doomscrolls is a form of doomscroll
doomscroll, verb: To keep scrolling through negative or distressing news online, often compulsively and to one's own detriment. Full entry
- Forms
- doomscrolldoomscrolls he/she/itdoomscrolling -ing formdoomscrolled past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- doomscroll → doomscrolls: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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