damn
Part of speech: verb
adj
adv
intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).
Inflected forms:
form: damns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: damning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: damned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: damned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: damn
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: damn
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: damned
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: damn
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: damnest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: damned
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: damnedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: damns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: damneth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: damned
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: damn
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: damned
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: damn
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: damned
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: damn
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: damning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: damned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: damns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To condemn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
Only God can damn.
I damn you eternally, fiend!
gloss: To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
pos: verb
examples: He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
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.
gloss: To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
pos: verb
examples: I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.
gloss: To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Homosexuality and suicide have some common characteristics. Both are damned by the Western Judeo-Christian culture as sins (although the latter has only been considered such since the sixth century).
gloss: To curse; put a curse upon.
pos: verb
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: That man stole my wallet. Damn him!
gloss: To invoke damnation; to curse.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
[…] while I inwardly damn.
gloss: Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
vulgar
examples: Shut the damn door!
Damn freaks!
Damn psychos!
The whole damn building came down!
Damn cultists are psychotic.
Where's that damn FOURTH Chaos Emerald!
gloss: Very; extremely.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
slang
vulgar
examples: That car was going damn fast!
How are you damn quick?
You must be so damn rapid.
I damn well hope you never come back.
We're begging, damn near down on our knees, and not getting one red cent.
gloss: Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.
pos: intj
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: The word "damn" employed as a curse.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: He said a few damns and left.
gloss: A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: The new hires aren't worth a damn.
gloss: The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: I don't give a damn.
Derived words: 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 to hell
damn your eyes
damn your hide
dang
darn
darn well
dayum
dizamn
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 to hell
gods damn
holy damn
hot damn
I'll be damned
near as damn it
oh, damn
predamn
pursuer rigged and parish damned
the damn
tinker's damn
undamn
well, damn
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