From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Damned \Damned\, a.
1. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned;
consigned to perdition.
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2. Hateful; detestable; abominable.
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But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves.
--Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damned} (d[a^]md or
d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damning} (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or
d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p),
OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to
condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. {Condemn},
{Damage}.]
1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to
punishment; to sentence; to censure.
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He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
--Shak.
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2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to
consign to perdition; to curse.
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3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as
by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
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You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the
works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
--Pope.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
--Pope.
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Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively,
and intensively.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
darned \darned\ adj.
an intensifying expletive; a eupehmism for {damned}; as, for
no darned reason at all.
Syn: blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn,
goddamned, gosh-darned.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
damned
adv 1: in a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably ,
politely , endlessly persistent!" [syn: {damned},
{damnably}, {cursedly}]
adj 1: 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"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: {blasted},
{blame}, {blamed}, {blessed}, {damn}, {damned}, {darned},
{deuced}, {goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned}, {infernal}]
2: in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell; "poor damned
souls" [syn: {cursed}, {damned}, {doomed}, {unredeemed},
{unsaved}]
n 1: people who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he
had visited the realm of the damned"
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