damnedst
damnedst is the second-person singular simple past indicative of damn.
Meaning of damn
Verb
damn (third-person singular simple present damns, present participle damning, simple past and past participle damned)
- To condemn.
- The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
- 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]...
- 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.
- 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
- Synonyms:
- anathematize, demonize, excoriate, vilify
- To curse; put a curse upon.
- That man stole my wallet. Damn him!
- To invoke damnation; to curse.
- […] while I inwardly damn.c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
- Synonyms:
- ban, execrate, point the bone
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