Definition of "damn"

damn

/dæm/

verb
third-person singular simple present damns, present participle damning, simple past and past participle damned
1. (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.
2. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
  Quotations
  He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
  1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]
3. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
4. To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
  Quotations
  You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] […] without hearing.
  November 8, 1708, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
5. (profane) To curse; put a curse upon.
6. (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
  Quotations
  […] while I inwardly damn.
  c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
adjective
not comparable
1. (mildly vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
  Quotations
  Where's that damn FOURTH Chaos Emerald!
  2005, Sonic Team, Sega Studios USA, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sega, PS2, GameCube, Xbox
adverb
not comparable
1. (mildly vulgar) Very; extremely.
interjection
1. (mildly vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.
noun
plural damns
1. The word "damn" employed as a curse.
2. (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.
3. (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

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