Meaning

6 senses

  1. (intransitive, transitive)To condemn.

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

    Only God can damn.

    verdammen, verfluchen

    проклина́тьproklinátʹ, прокля́стьprokljástʹ, клястьkljastʹ

    проклина́тиproklynáty, прокля́стиprokljásty, кля́стиkljásty

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

  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.

    ächten, verschreien

    осужда́тьosuždátʹ, осуди́тьosudítʹ, порица́тьporicátʹ

  4. 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.

    verteufeln

  5. (slang)To curse; put a curse upon.

    That man stole my wallet. Damn him!

    verfluchen, verwünschen

    проклина́тьproklinátʹ, прокля́стьprokljástʹ, клястьkljastʹ

  6. (archaic)To invoke damnation; to curse.

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

More definitions
  • wish harm upon; invoke evil upon

Examples

240 sentences

  1. I don't give a damn about you and your circumstances!

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  2. I'd do any damn thing for you.

    Я би зробив чортзна-що для тебе. — Qermit

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  3. I don't give a damn about poetry.

    Мені начхати на поезію. — ChickenKiev

    deIch scheiße auf Dichtkunst. — human600

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  4. I don't care a damn what people think of me.

    Я срати хотів на те, що про мене думають люди. — deniko

    deIch scheiße darauf, was andere von mir denken. — human600

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  5. God damn it, what the hell is wrong with them?

    Чорт забирай, що з ними до біса не так? — deniko

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
theology: to condemn:
Русский
By meaning 2
theology: to condemn:
to put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
theology: to condemn:
to put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively:
to condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral, or illegal:
to put a curse upon:

Origin

From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, infl

From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).

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Forms

damns, damning, damned, damned
Base formdamn · to damn
3rd person singulardamns
Present participledamning
Past simpledamned
Past participledamned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydamn
he, she, itdamns

Past simpleLesson

all personsdamned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave damned
he, she, ithas damned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill damn

Synonyms

16 synonyms
convictC1doomB2banB2anathematizedemonizeexcoriatevilifycomminateexecrateimprecatepoint the bone
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relateddamnatorydamnation

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
damedammedammitdamnation
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