01 v. t. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
imp. & p. p.
Damned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Damning
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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.
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To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.(Theol.)
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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.