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(dm), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Damned (dmd or dm"nd); p. pr. & vb. n.Damning (dm"ng or dm"nng).] [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. Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively. Damn v. i.To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn." Goldsmith. スポンサード リンク
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