damn
Meaning
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- To condemn to hell.
- To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
- To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
- To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
- To curse; put a curse upon.
- To invoke damnation; to curse.
Synonyms
anathemise
anathemize
denounce
tinker’s damn
tinker’s dam
cursed with
dash it
bad person
disparage
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/dæm/
Etymology
From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).
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