Damn

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To pronounce an adverse judgment upon. See Synonyms at condemn.
  • v. To bring about the failure of; ruin.
  • v. To condemn as harmful, illegal, or immoral: a cleric who damned gambling and strong drink.
  • v. To condemn to everlasting punishment or a similar fate; doom.
  • v. To swear at.
  • verb-intransitive. To swear; curse.
  • interjection. Used to express anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.
  • n. The saying of "damn” as a curse.
  • n. Informal The least valuable bit; a jot: not worth a damn.
  • ad. Damned.
  • idiom. damn well Without any doubt; positively: I am damn well going to file charges against him.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To condemn to hell.
  • v. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
  • v. To condemn as unfit, harmful, of poor quality, unsuccessful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
  • v. To curse; put a curse upon.
  • v. To invoke damnation; to curse.
  • adj. Generic intensifier.
  • ad. awfully, extremely
  • interjection. Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc. See also dammit.
  • n. The use of "damn" as a curse.
  • n. A small, negligible quantity, being of little value.
  • n. The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
  • v. To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
  • v. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
  • verb-intransitive. To invoke damnation; to curse.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To condemn; affirm to be guilty, or worthy of punishment; sentence judicially.
  • To assign to a certain fate; doom.
  • Specifically In theology, to doom to punishment in a future state; condemn to hell.
  • Hence In the imperative, used profanely in emphatic objurgation or contempt of the object, and more vulgarly in certain arbitrary phrases (as damn your or his eyes!) in general reprehension or defiance of a person.
  • To address with the objurgation “damn!”; swear at.
  • To adjudge or pronounce to be bad; condemn as a failure; hence, to ruin by expressed disapproval: as, to damn a play.
  • To use the objurgation “damn!”; swear.
  • n. The verb damn used as a profane word; a curse; an oath.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. something of little value
  • ad. extremely
  • adj. used as expletives
  • adj. expletives used informally as intensifiers
  • v. wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
  • Equivalent
    cursed    curst   
    Verb Form
    damned    damning    damns   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    worthlessness    ineptitude    conjure    call down    evoke    stir    raise    bring up    arouse    conjure up   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    curse    condemn    ruin    damned    dammit   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abram    Am    Cam    Dam    Durham    Graeme    Graham    Ham    Hamm    Lamb   
    Same Context
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