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Damn v. t. (past & past part. damned; pres. part. damning)

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."

(Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

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." "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer." Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.

Damn v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn."

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"Damn" Quotes from Famous Books

... he demanded upon the threshold. "You're raving—loco—nuts! There's no harm in my huddling under the same roof with you—it's a damn necessity. I'm not going to hold hands and I'm not going to kiss you. If you've got any drawn swords you can lay their blades between us. You turn your face to the wall and forget all about it ...

— The Innocent Adventuress • Mary Hastings Bradley

... and work," Wilson stated. "I'm taking a vacation. Three months is too damn long to ...

— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak

... "Damn a pipe," Casey grumbled with drunken petulance. "Anybody got a cigarette? I'm single-handed an' I ...

— The Trail of the White Mule • B. M. Bower

... that Turgenieff got angina of the heart from gout. I am afraid I am getting angina too. Oh, damn this horrible, accursed old age! Ever since I have been old I have been hateful to myself, and I am sure, hateful ...

— Uncle Vanya • Anton Checkov

... Duke. Wellington, when in action, was the dumbest of dumb things, and it would have required a moral earthquake to get more than some curt order out of him. Even a "tinker's curse" or "a tuppenny damn" would have seemed loquacious in him on such an occasion. The not very sensational "Up Guards and at 'em!" was in later life disputed by the Duke. Under great pressure, the most he would admit was that he might ...

— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey

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