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Damn (dăm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned (dămd or dămˈnĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (dămˈĭng or dămˈnĭng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty.  Cf. Condemn, Damage.]
    1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

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    He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. Shak.

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    2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

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    3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denunciation, hissing, hooting, etc.

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    You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. Pope.

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    Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,

    And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. Pope.

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    ☞ Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.

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Damn, v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. “While I inwardly damn.”  Goldsmith.

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