Damn , v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn." Goldsmith.
Damn (dăm),
v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned (dămd or dăm"n&ebreve;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (dăm"&ibreve;ng or dăm"n&ibreve;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. &fist; Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
Hear it pronounced