Damn /(dăm)/

Damn

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Damned; p. pr. & vb. n. Damning

  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.
  2. To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse. (Theol.)
  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.
    Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.

Damn

v. i.
  1. To invoke damnation; to curse.