What does damn! mean?
Damn! means (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn..
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/ˈdæm/ · verb
(theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn..
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).
Use damn! when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Damn! means (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn..
Common synonyms include convict, doom, anathematize, demonize.
Possible antonyms include bless.
The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
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