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  1. 1. v. t. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. t. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. Source: opted
  5. 5. adj. used as expletives Source: wordnet
  6. 6. adj. expletives used informally as intensifiers Source: wordnet
  7. 7. n. something of little value Source: wordnet
  8. 8. adv. extremely Source: wordnet
  9. 9. v. wish harm upon; invoke evil upon Source: wordnet
  10. 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. Source: webster
  11. 11. To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign toperdition; to curse. Source: adambom
  12. 12. n:2/r:8/j:45/u:14/v:31 n. something of little value s. used as expletives Source: ecdict

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