# damn
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dæm/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (æ-tensing) IPA: [dɛəm], [deəm], [dɛːm]
* Homophone: dam
* Rhymes: -æm

### Verb

damn (third-person singular simple present damns, present participle damning, simple past and past participle damned)
* (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.
    The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
    Only God can damn.
    I damn you eternally, fiend!
* To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
    Synonyms: convict, doom
** 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, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
** 2018 May 12, Stephanie Sinclair, “'What I Learned From Adopting Two Children With Rare Genetic Conditions'”, in Time‎:Lack of access to support services can damn children with disabilities and lesser means to lives where they never harness their full range of abilities.
* To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
    I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.
* To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
    Synonyms: anathematize, demonize, excoriate, vilify
** 1708 November 8, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
    You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] […] without hearing.
* (sometimes vulgar) To curse; put a curse upon.
    Synonyms: comminate, execrate, imprecate
    That man stole my wallet. Damn him!
* (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
    Synonyms: ban, execrate, point the bone
** c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
    […] while I inwardly damn.

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) damn | (to) damn |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | damn | damned |
| 2nd-person singular | damn, damnest$^†$ | damned, damnedst$^†$ |
| 3rd-person singular | damns, damneth$^†$ | damned |
| plural | damn | damned |
| subjunctive | damn | damned |
| imperative | damn | — |
| participles | damning | damned |
$^†$Archaic or obsolete.

#### Translations
### Adjective

damn (not comparable)
* (sometimes vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:damned
    Shut the damn door!
    Damn freaks!
    Damn psychos!
    The whole damn building came down!
    Damn cultists are psychotic.
** 2005, Sonic Team, Sega Studios USA, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sega, PS2, GameCube, Xbox:Where's that damn FOURTH Chaos Emerald!

#### Translations
### Adverb

damn (not comparable)
* (sometimes vulgar) Very; extremely.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:extremely
    That car was going damn fast!
    How are you damn quick?
    You must be so damn rapid.
    It went currently damn identical.
** 1989 December 10, John Zeh, quoting Tony Allen, “AIDS Groups' Execs Arrested In D.C.”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 1:We're begging, damn near down on our knees, and not getting one red cent.

#### Translations
### Interjection

damn
* (sometimes vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dammit

#### Translations
### Noun

damn (plural damns)
* (sometimes vulgar) The word "damn" employed as a curse.
    He said a few damns and left.
* (sometimes vulgar, chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum
    The new hires aren't worth a damn.
* (sometimes vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
    I don't give a damn.

#### Translations

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### Derived terms

* a damn sight
* ah, damn
* bedamn
* be damned
* Billy-be-damned
* damage
* dammit
* dammit all to hell
* dammit to hell
* damnability
* damnable
* damn all
* damn and blast
* damnation
* damnatory
* damn by association
* damned
* damned if I care
* damned if I know
* damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
* damned well
* damnfool
* damn if I care
* damn if I know
* damnit
* damn it
* damn luck
* damn lucky
* damn my eyes
* damn right
* damn skippy
* damn straight
* damn sure
* damn the torpedoes
* damn well
* damn with faint praise
* damnworthy
* damn Yankee
* damn you
* damn you all in hell
* damn you all to hell
* damn your eyes
* damn your hide
* dang (euphemistic)
* darn (euphemistic)
* darn well
* dayum (slang, emphatic form)
* dizamn (slang, emphatic form)
* ever-damned
* foredamn
* fore-damned
* give a damn
* give a flying damn
* give a good damn
* give a tinker's damn
* goddammit
* god damn
* goddamned
* God damn, goddamn
* goddamn you all in hell
* goddamn you all to hell
* gods damn
* holy damn
* hot damn
* I'll be damned
* may God damn you
* near as damn it
* oh, damn
* predamn
* pursuer rigged and parish damned
* the damn
* tinker's damn
* undamn
* well, damn

### Anagrams

* d-man, Mand, NDMA, NMDA, nam'd, mand, MDNA, mDNA