damn
verb (used with object)
to declare (something) to be bad, unfit, invalid, or illegal.
damns
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pluralof damn.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof damn (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
damnverb (used with object)to declare (something) to be bad, unfit, invalid, or illegal.
Example Sentences
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He damns terrorists with faint praise, as when he condemned the attack on a Jewish school in West Bloomfield, Mich., before excusing the perpetrator with the words “hurt people do hurt people.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Over five sections, this tear-splattered score mourns and damns, and declares where in the past Adams might have simply observed.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
Sq Ldr George "Johnny" Johnson, who lived in Bristol, was a bomb-aimer in the 617 Squadron, which destroyed key damns in the industrial heartland of Germany in World War Two.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
With her final breath, she damns him to a life without Love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
The country squire damns a court life, and would not go cringing and creeping to a drawing-room for the best place the king has at his disposal.
From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop
