Hypertext Webster Gateway: "damn"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damned} (d[a^]md or
d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damning} (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or
d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [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.
He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
--Shak.
2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to
consign to perdition; to curse.
3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as
by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the
works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
--Pope.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And
without sneering teach the rest to sneer. --Pope.
Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively,
and intensively.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Damn \Damn\, v. i.
To invoke damnation; to curse. ``While I inwardly damn.''
--Goldsmith.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
damn
adj 1: used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn: {goddamn}]
2: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted
idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not
a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or
goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or
goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or
his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn:
{blasted}, {blame}, {blamed}, {blessed}, {damned}, {darned},
{deuced}, {everlasting}, {goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned},
{infernal}]
n : something of little value; "it is not worth a damn"; "not
worth shucks" [syn: {darn}, {hoot}, {shit}, {shucks}, {tinker's
damn}, {tinker's dam}]
adv : (intensifier) "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so
all-fired aggressive?" [syn: {bloody}, {all-fired}]
v : wish harm upon; put a curse on; "The bad witch cursed the
child" [syn: {curse}, {beshrew}, {bedamn}, {anathemize},
{imprecate}, {maledict}] [ant: {bless}]
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