damn
damn is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 37 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
- 2.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.
- 3.To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn." Goldsmith.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accuse
- attainder
- attaint
- attaintment
- attainture
- bring
- cast
- condemn
- condemnation
- condemnatory
- condemned
- confiscate
- convict
- conviction
- damnation
- damnatory
- death
- disapprove
- doom
- failure
- find
- guilty
- home
- judgment
- nonsuit
- pass
- penalty
- proscribe
- proscription
- self-convicted
- sentence
- sequestrate
- sign
- stand
- the
- unpitied
- warrant
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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