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English Dictionary: damn	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for damn
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
damn adv extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all- fired aggressive?" Synonym(s): bloody, damn, all-fired adj used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn: damn, goddamn] 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"; "an infernal nuisance" Synonym(s): blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal n something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" Synonym(s): damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam v wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" Synonym(s): curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict Antonym(s): bless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Damn \Damn\ (d[acr]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damned} (d[acr]md or d[acr]m"n[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damning} (d[acr]m"[icr]ng or d[acr]m"n[icr]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. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. --Shak. 2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse. 3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. --Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. --Pope. Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Damn \Damn\, v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. [bd]While I inwardly damn.[b8] --Goldsmith.