Damn

Quick meaning: Damn is a verb meaning (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn.

Meaning

(theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn.

More Meanings

1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
2. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
3. To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
4. (slang, vulgar) To curse; put a curse upon.
5. (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
6. (slang, vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
7. (slang, vulgar) Very; extremely.

Example Sentences

Only God can damn.

I damn you eternally, fiend!

He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.

I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.

Word Forms

• damns
• damning
• damned
• damnest
• damnedst
• damneth

Synonyms for damn

Depending on context, synonyms include convict, doom, anathematize, demonize, excoriate, vilify.

Antonyms for damn

Common opposites include bless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anathemize, imprecate, maledict, beshrew, curse, cursed.

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