damns

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

   Synonyms:

   anathematize, demonize, excoriate, vilify

5. (slang, slightly vulgar) To curse; put a curse upon.
   • That man stole my wallet. Damn him!

   Synonyms:

   comminate, execrate, imprecate

6. (archaic) 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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