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1. intransitivetransitivelifestyleTo condemn.

   Only God can damn.

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

   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.

   1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]

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   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.

   2018 May 12, Stephanie Sinclair, “'What I Learned From Adopting Two Children With Rare Genetic Conditions'”, in Time, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2024

   Synonyms: convict, doom

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.

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   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).

   1976 February 14, David Brill, “Suicide”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 11

   Synonyms: anathematize, demonize, excoriate, vilify

5. slangslightly vulgarTo curse; put a curse upon.

   That man stole my wallet. Damn him!

   Synonyms: comminate, execrate, imprecate

6. archaicTo invoke damnation; to curse.

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

   Synonyms: ban, execrate, point the bone

1. not comparableslangslightly vulgarGeneric intensifier. Fucking; bloody.

   Damn freaks!

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   Shut the damn door!

   Damn psychos!

   The whole damn building came down!

   Damn cultists are psychotic.

   Where's that damn FOURTH Chaos Emerald!

   2005, Sonic Team, Sega Studios USA, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sega, PS2, GameCube, Xbox

   Synonyms: 4ucking, accursed, bally, blasted, bleeding, bleeping, blessed, blimming

1. not comparableslangslightly vulgarVery; extremely.

   How are you damn quick?

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   That car was going damn fast!

   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.

   1989 December 10, John Zeh, quoting Tony Allen, “AIDS Groups' Execs Arrested In D.C.”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 1

   Synonyms: acutely, awfully, almighty, badly, seriously, impossibly, beyond, drastically

1. slangvulgarUsed to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.

   Synonyms: 4uck, ay, chihuahua, blast, bugger, bummer, byrlady, consarn it

plural damns

1. slangThe word "damn" employed as a curse.

   He said a few damns and left.

2. slangA small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.

   The new hires aren't worth a damn.

   Synonyms: ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, continental, bit

3. slangThe smallest amount of concern or consideration.

   I don't give a damn.

1. abbreviationuncountablechemistryAbbreviation of diaminomaleonitrile.

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

   2016, Yassin Aweis Jeilani, Phoenix N. Williams, Sofia Waltona, Minh Tho Nguyen, “Unified reaction pathways for the prebiotic formation of RNA and DNA nucleobases”, in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, volume 18, number 30, →DOI

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   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.

   1978, Yozo Ohtsuka, “Chemistry of diaminomaleonitrile. 3. Reaction with isocyanate: a novel pyrimidine synthesis”, in Journal of Organic Chemistry, volume 43, number 16, page 3231

2. abbreviationacronymuncountablecomputingAcronym 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.

   1995, J. K. Rosenblatt, C. E. Thorpe, “Combining multiple goals in a behavior-based architecture”, in Proceedings 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, →DOI, page 136

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   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.

   2008, Stephen Williams, Antidio Viguria, Ayanna M. Howard, “A robotic mobile sensor network for achieving scientific measurements in challenging environments”, in Proceedings of the Earth Science Technology Conference