damn

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive)To condemn.

   “The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.”

   “Only God can damn.”

   “I damn you eternally, fiend!”

2. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.

   “He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.”

   “Lack of access to support services can damn children with disabilities and lesser means to lives where they never harness their full range of abilities.”

3. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.

   “I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.”

4. To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.

   “1708 November 8, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] […] without hearing.”

   “Homosexuality and suicide have some common characteristics. Both are damned by the Western Judeo-Christian culture as sins (although the latter has only been considered such since the sixth century).”

5. (slang, vulgar)To curse; put a curse upon.

   “That man stole my wallet. Damn him!”

6. (archaic)To invoke damnation; to curse.

   “c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury […] while I inwardly damn.”

adj

1. (not-comparable, slang, vulgar)Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.

   “Shut the damn door!”

   “Damn freaks!”

   “Damn psychos!”

   “The whole damn building came down!”

   “Damn cultists are psychotic.”

adv

1. (not-comparable, slang, vulgar)Very; extremely.

   “That car was going damn fast!”

   “How are you damn quick?”

   “You must be so damn rapid.”

   “I damn well hope you never come back.”

   “We're begging, damn near down on our knees, and not getting one red cent.”

intj

1. (slang, vulgar)Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.

noun

1. (slang, vulgar)The word "damn" employed as a curse.

   “He said a few damns and left.”

2. (slang, vulgar)A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.

   “The new hires aren't worth a damn.”

3. (slang, vulgar)The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

   “I don't give a damn.”

4. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable)Abbreviation of diaminomaleonitrile.

   “Several nitrogen heterocycles, including imidazoles,¹⁻³ pyrazines,⁴ and diazepines,^(1, 3) have been prepared from diaminomaleonitrile (DAMN, 1), the tetramer of hydrogen cyanide.”

   “Diaminomaleonitrile (DAMN), a stable tetramer of HCN, has long been renowned as a precursor for the formation of nucleobases.”

5. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of distributed architecture for mobile navigation.

   “The Distributed Architecture for Mobile Navigation (DAMN) has been successfully used to integrate various independently developed subsystems, providing systems that perform road following, cross-country navigation, or teleoperation while avoiding obstacles and meeting mission objectives.”

   “In each robot, a path planning algorithm, an obstacle avoidance routine, a slope assessment algorithm, and a task execution unit have all been integrated into a single behavior-based architecture. Navigation is implemented using the DAMN architecture to combine the competing outputs of each behavior module.”