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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), verb (used with an object) [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.
He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. --Shak.
2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
3. 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.
Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Damning \Damn"ing\, adjective That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
damning
adjective: threatening with damnation [syn: {damnatory}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "damning": absolute, adducible, admissible, attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, certain, circumstantial, conclusive, convincing, cumulative, decisive, determinative, documentary, documented, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, final, firsthand, founded on, grounded on, hearsay, implicit, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, irrefutable, irresistible, material, nuncupative, overwhelming, presumptive, probative, reliable, significant, suggestive, sure, symptomatic, telling, valid, weighty
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