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/tɑɹˈneɪʃən/ · noun
(regional or archaic) The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell..
What in tarnation is going on?
I am Offul maazed. Wheer in tarnations es that theer plaguy girl?
Them city fellers liked to died when they see me come in the office ! I says to 'em: "Had a tarnation of a time finding this place.
"Now who in tarnation is Uncle Jobe?" asked Pa.
Then where in tarnation is it?
I would say more, but RADLEY's come up to tell me I must go and meet that tarnation BANCROFT.
I felt sort of odd all over, and I hadn't the least notion what could ail me; it warn't a very tedious feeling, though, but it seemed as if I was a dreaming yit, and all about that tarnation little Miss Miles.
The year before that the young tarnations got up into the tower one night and hooked a rope onto the bell and stretched it across the campus into Professor Robert's barn.
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Tarnation means (regional or archaic) The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell..
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What in tarnation is going on?
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