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damnd

damnd is the alternative form of damn.

damnd is the archaic spelling of damned.

Meaning of damn

Verb

damn (third-person singular simple present damns, present participle damning, simple past and past participle damned)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To condemn.
    • The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
  2. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
    • He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    Synonyms:
    convict, doom
  3. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
    • I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.
  4. To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
    • You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] […] without hearing.1708 November 8, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
  5. (slang, slightly vulgar) To curse; put a curse upon.
    • That man stole my wallet. Damn him!
  6. (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
    • […] while I inwardly damn.c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury

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Meaning of damned

Adjective

damned (comparative damneder or damnder or more damned, superlative damnedest or damndest or most damned)

  1. Godforsaken.
    • You're children of the damned // like candles, watch them burn // burning in the light // you'll burn again tonight.1982, Iron Maiden, “Children of the Damned”

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Forms of damnd

third-person singular presentdamnds
present participledamnding
past participledamnded
pastdamnded

Questions about damnd

What is damnd the alternative form of?
Damnd is the alternative form of damn.

Words near damnd in the dictionary

  1. damnatio memoriae
  2. damnation
  3. damnation of memory
  4. damnations
  5. damnatory
  6. damnd
  7. damnded
  8. damnder
  9. damndest
  10. damnding
  11. damnds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: damnd (page history and authors); damn (page history and authors); damned (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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