DAMN

damn. Damn, v.t. to curse, condemn, doom, hiss down

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Damn (dăm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned (dămd or dăm″nĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (dăm″ĭng or dăm″nĭng).] [[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. 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. 2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
3. 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 . . . without hearing. Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. Pope. ☞ Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.