damn

(intransitive, transitive)(theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn.

The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.

Only God can damn.

I damn you eternally, fiend!

To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.

Đồng nghĩa: convict, doom

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.

1708 November 8, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] […] without hearing.

Đồng nghĩa: anathematize, demonize, excoriate, vilify

(slang, vulgar)To curse; put a curse upon.

That man stole my wallet. Damn him!

Đồng nghĩa: comminate, execrate, imprecate

(archaic)To invoke damnation; to curse.

c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury […] while I inwardly damn.

Đồng nghĩa: ban, execrate, point the bone

(not comparable, slang, vulgar)Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.

Shut the damn door!

Damn freaks!

Damn psychos!

The whole damn building came down!

Damn cultists are psychotic.

Đồng nghĩa: 4ucking, accursed, bally, blasted, bleeding, bleeping, blessed, blimming, blinking, bloody, blooming, confounded, consarned, cotton-picking, cowson, cursed, dadburn, dadgum, dagnabbed, damn, damnable, damned, dang, danged, darn, darned, dashed, deuced, doggone, dratted, effing, ever-loving, fecking, flaming, flipping, freaking, fricking, frigging, fucking, fudging, fugging, furshlugginer, jiggered, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, goddarned, godforsaken, goldurn, gormed, goshdarn, goshdarned, hecking, holy, infernal, living, mollyfogging, motherfucking, pissing, plain, precious, raasclaat, ruddy, sniggered, sodding, stinking

(not comparable, slang, vulgar)Very; extremely.

That car was going damn fast!

How are you damn quick?

You must be so damn rapid.

I damn well hope you never come back.

Đồng nghĩa: acutely, awfully, almighty, badly, beyond, damn, drastically, exceedingly, extraordinarily, highly, hugely, immensely, indecently, insanely, intensely, jolly, mightily, murrain, severely, strikingly, terribly, very much, violently, wicked, wildly

(slang, vulgar)Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.

Đồng nghĩa: 4uck, ay, chihuahua, blast, bugger, bummer, byrlady, consarn it, crap, crud, curses, dammit, damn, dadgummit, dagnabbit, dang, dang it, darn, darn it, dash, dash it, dizamn, d'oh, doggone, doggonit, drat, fark, feck, fiddle, fiddlefart, fiddlestick, fiddlesticks, fook, frak, frick, fuck, fuck me, fudge, goddamn, goshdarn, goddammit, goshdarnit, good grief, gorblimey, hang it all, heck, hell, hell's bells, hell's bloody bells, hell's bloody bells and damnation, Holy Mother, Holy Mother of God, ish, Mother of God, nuts, phooey, piss, poo, raasclaat, rats, shit, shoot, shucks, son of a bitch, son of a gun, sugar

(slang, vulgar)The word "damn" employed as a curse.

He said a few damns and left.

(slang, vulgar)(chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.

The new hires aren't worth a damn.

Đồng nghĩa: ace, atom, atomy, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, glimpse, dab, damn, dash, diddly, glint, dot, spatter, drop, dusting, fleck, glimmer, hint, flip, flyspeck, grain, halfpennyworth, inch, iota, jot, lick, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, piece, pinch, relish, scantling, semblance, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, spark, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tinge, tittle, toddick, touch, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, vestige, whiff, whit

(slang, vulgar)(chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

I don't give a damn.