damn
IPA: dˈæm
noun
- The word "damn" employed as a curse.
- (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.
- (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
verb
- (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.
- To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
- To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
- To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
- (profane) To curse; put a curse upon.
- (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
adjective
- (mildly vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
adverb
- (mildly vulgar) Very; extremely.
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Examples of "damn" in Sentences
- Scrawled in pencil in one of the margins is the word damn.
- Paige was, in the words of one contemporary, a “raconteur—what we called a damn good liar.”
- God damn is rare in England, and Englishmen say I dont care a damn much more often than I dont give a damn.
- And I'm still damn stressed cuz in 2 weeks 'time will be our science practical mid-year paper, and in 1 month's time will be our mid-year paper damn
- Redneck is gradually giving way to good ol 'boy, and, at least in the Triangle, the term damn Yankee is giving way to just Yankee or the even more acceptable Northern newcomer.
- When one of them fired at me I took a dive into the field, and of course your"—he visibly cut off the word damn out of respect for a lady's presence—"your San Francisco fields are more like taking a dive over a cliff.
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