<b><font size="4">"damn"</font></b><br/><b>adjective</b> <ol> <li>used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn: <a href="../goddamn.html">goddamn</a>] </li> <li>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: <a href="../blasted.html">blasted</a>, <a href="../blame.html">blame</a>, <a href="../blamed.html">blamed</a>, <a href="../blessed.html">blessed</a>, <a href="../damned.html">damned</a>, <a href="../darned.html">darned</a>, <a href="../deuced.html">deuced</a>, <a href="../everlasting.html">everlasting</a>, <a href="../goddam.html">goddam</a>, <a href="../goddamn.html">goddamn</a>, <a href="../goddamned.html">goddamned</a>, <a href="../infernal.html">infernal</a>]</li> </ol> <b>noun</b> <ol> <li>something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: <a href="../darn.html">darn</a>, <a href="../hoot.html">hoot</a>, <a href="/">red cent</a>, <a href="../shit.html">shit</a>, <a href="../shucks.html">shucks</a>, <a href="/">tinker's damn</a>, <a href="/">tinker's dam</a>]</li> </ol> <b>adverb</b> <ol> <li>extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?" [syn: <a href="../bloody.html">bloody</a>, <a href="/">all-fired</a>]</li> </ol> <b>verb</b> <ol> <li>wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" [syn: <a href="../curse.html">curse</a>, <a href="../beshrew.html">beshrew</a>, <a href="../bedamn.html">bedamn</a>, <a href="../anathemize.html">anathemize</a>, <a href="../anathemise.html">anathemise</a>, <a href="../imprecate.html">imprecate</a>, <a href="../maledict.html">maledict</a>] [ant: <a href="../bless.html">bless</a>]</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../damn.html">http://www.word.sc/damn</a>

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