Other Definitions
damn (enc)
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Damn| Noun | 1. | damn - something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks"worthlessness - having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful; "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness" | | | Verb | 1. | damn - wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"bring up, call down, conjure, conjure up, invoke, call forth, put forward, arouse, evoke, stir, raise - evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" | | | Adj. | 1. | damn - used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!"cursed, curst - deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning" | | | 2. | damn - expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance"blame, blamed, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamned, goddamn, everlasting, blasted, blessed, infernal cursed, curst - deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning" | | | Adv. | 1. | damn - extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?"intensifier, intensive - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" | |
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