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Pronunciation : Damn
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. damnen dap), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. Condemn, Damage.]
Definition : 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.)

Defn: 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Damned; p. pr. & vb. n. Damning.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Damn
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn." Goldsmith.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913