damn | Lernwerd

Forms

1.To condemn.
- The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
- I damn you eternally, fiend!
2.To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
- 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.
3.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.
4.To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
- 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).

1.Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.(slang)
- The whole damn building came down!
- Where's that damn FOURTH Chaos Emerald!

1.Very; extremely.(slang)
- I damn well hope you never come back.
- We're begging, damn near down on our knees, and not getting one red cent.
- You must be so damn rapid.

1.Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.(slang)

Uncommon· #2703

From Middle English dampnen

From Old French damner

From Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”)

From damnum (“loss”).