damn
verb/dæm/
/dæm/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they damn | /dæm/ /dæm/ |
| he / she / it damns | /dæmz/ /dæmz/ |
| past simple damned | /dæmd/ /dæmd/ |
| past participle damned | /dæmd/ /dæmd/ |
| -ing form damning | /ˈdæmɪŋ/ /ˈdæmɪŋ/ |
- damn somebody/something (informal) used when swearing at somebody/something to show that you are angry
- Damn you! I'm not going to let you bully me.
- Damn this machine! Why won't it work?
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- damn somebody (of God) to decide that somebody must suffer in hell
- damn somebody/something to criticize somebody/something very strongly
- The film was damned by the critics for its mindless violence.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French dam(p)ner, from Latin dam(p)nare ‘inflict loss on’, from damnum ‘loss, damage’.
Idioms
See damn in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryas near as damn it/dammit
- (British English, informal) used to say that an amount is so nearly correct that the difference does not matter
- It will cost £350, or as near as dammit.
damn the consequences, expense, etc.
- (informal) used to say that you are going to do something even though you know it may have bad results, be expensive, etc.
- Let's celebrate and damn the expense!
damn somebody/something with faint praise
- to praise somebody/something only a little, in order to show that you do not really like them/it
I’ll be damned!
- (old-fashioned, informal) used to show that you are very surprised about something
I’m damned if…
- (informal) used to show that you refuse to do something or do not know something
- I'm damned if I'll apologize!
- I'm damned if I know who he is.
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