Damn

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damned} (d[a^]md or
     d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damning} (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or
     d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p),
     OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to
     condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. {Condemn},
     {Damage}.]


     1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to
        punishment; to sentence; to censure.
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              He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to
        consign to perdition; to curse.
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     3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as
        by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
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              You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the
              works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
                                                    --Pope.
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              Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
              And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
                                                    --Pope.
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     Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively,
           and intensively.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Damn \Damn\, v. i.
     To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn."
     --Goldsmith.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  damn
       adj 1: used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn: {goddamn}]
       2: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted
          idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not
          a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or
          goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or
          goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or
          his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn:
          {blasted}, {blame}, {blamed}, {blessed}, {damned}, {darned},
           {deuced}, {everlasting}, {goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned},
           {infernal}]
       n : something of little value; "his promise is not worth a
           damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn:
            {darn}, {hoot}, {red cent}, {shit}, {shucks}, {tinker's
           damn}, {tinker's dam}]
       adv : extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired
             aggressive?" [syn: {bloody}, {all-fired}]
       v : wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the
           child" [syn: {curse}, {beshrew}, {bedamn}, {anathemize},
           {anathemise}, {imprecate}, {maledict}] [ant: {bless}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  197 Moby Thesaurus words for "damn":
     a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, abominate, abuse,
     accurse, accursed, accuse, ace, anathematize, anathemize,
     animadvert on, arraign, attack, attaint, bagatelle, banish, bauble,
     be concerned, bean, berate, bibelot, bit, blackguard, blacklist,
     blame, blaspheme, blast, brass farthing, bring home to,
     bring to ruin, button, call names, call to account, care,
     cast blame upon, cast into hell, cast out, cast reflection upon,
     castigate, censure, cent, complain against, condemn,
     condemn to hell, confound, consign to hell, consume, convict,
     criticize, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon,
     curio, curse, cursed, cuss, cuss out, damnable, damned, darn,
     deal destruction, decimate, decry, denounce, denunciate, depredate,
     desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, discipline,
     dissolve, doom, doom to perdition, engorge, epithet, epithetize,
     excommunicate, execrable, execrate, expel, farce, farthing,
     feather, fig, find guilty, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery,
     fulminate against, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, gobble, gobble up,
     goddamn, goddamned, gut, gut with fire, hair, halfpenny, havoc,
     hex, hill of beans, hoot, impeach, imprecate, impugn, incinerate,
     indict, inveigh against, jest, joke, jot, kickshaw, knickknack,
     knickknackery, lay in ruins, lay waste, lota, mind, minikin,
     mockery, modicum, molehill, objurgate, ounce, pass sentence on,
     penalize, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick,
     pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, punish, rap,
     ravage, red cent, reflect upon, remonstrate, reprehend, reprimand,
     reproach, reprobate, reprove, revile, row of pins, ruin, ruinate,
     rush, sentence, shake up, shipwreck, shit, shred, snap, sneeshing,
     sou, straw, swallow up, swear, swear at, throw a whammy,
     throw into disorder, thunder against, toy, trifle, trinket,
     triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, unleash destruction,
     unleash the hurricane, upbraid, upheave, vandalize, vaporize,
     vilify, vituperate, waste, whim-wham, whit, whoop, worry, wrack,
     wreak havoc, wreck
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  DAMN, v.  A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning
  of which is lost.  By the learned Dr. Dolabelly Gak it is believed to
  have been a term of satisfaction, implying the highest possible degree
  of mental tranquillity.  Professor Groke, on the contrary, thinks it
  expressed an emotion of tumultuous delight, because it so frequently
  occurs in combination with the word _jod_ or _god_, meaning "joy."  It
  would be with great diffidence that I should advance an opinion
  conflicting with that of either of these formidable authorities.