damn /ˈdæm/
一點,詛咒,絲毫(vt.)詛咒,下地獄
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. --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.
Note: ☞ Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
Damn, v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. “While I inwardly damn.”
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damn
adj 1: used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn: goddamn]
2: 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" [syn:
blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damned, darned,
deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned,
infernal]
n : something of little value; "his promise is not worth a
damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn:
darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's
damn, tinker's dam]
adv : extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired
aggressive?" [syn: bloody, all-fired]
v : wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the
child" [syn: curse, beshrew, bedamn, anathemize,
anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant: bless]