Thesaurus: damn

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1. v. t. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
2. v. t. To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
3. v. t. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
4. v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse.
5. adj. used as expletives
6. adj. expletives used informally as intensifiers
7. n. something of little value
8. adv. extremely
9. v. wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
10. 1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censhure. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. Shak. 2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse. 3. 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. Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. Pope. Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively. To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn." Goldsmith.
11. To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign toperdition; to curse.
12. n:2/r:8/j:45/u:14/v:31 n. something of little value s. used as expletives