Damn

/ˈdæm/ · verb

Meaning

(theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.

Only God can damn.

I damn you eternally, fiend!

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.

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

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).

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