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Past tense of damn

regular verb

The past tense of damn is damned. The past participle is also damned.

Forms of damn

Base form (V1)damn /ˈdæm/
Past tense (V2)damned /dæmd/
Past participle (V3)damned /dæmd/
Present participledamning /ˈdæmɪŋ/
Third person singulardamns /dæmz/

Damned in a sentence

  • The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
  • I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.

Meaning of damn

  1. verb To condemn.
  2. verb To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
  3. verb To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.

Full definition of damn

Questions about the past tense of damn

What is the past tense of damn?
The past tense of damn is damned.
What is the past participle of damn?
The past participle of damn is damned.
Is damn a regular or irregular verb?
Damn is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: damn (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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