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ydamned

ydamned is the past participle of damn.

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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Synonyms of ydamned

Questions about ydamned

What is ydamned the past participle of?
Ydamned is the past participle of damn.

Words near ydamned in the dictionary

  1. ycovered
  2. YCP
  3. ycrowned
  4. yd
  5. yd.
  6. ydamned
  7. yday
  8. ydg
  9. ydk
  10. YDKB
  11. YDNRC

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