Definition of: damn

(dam) v.t.
1. To pronounce worthless, unfit, bad, a failure, etc.: to damn the opposition or a play.
2. To curse or swear at.
3. Theol. To condemn to eternal punishment.
4. To pronounce guilty; bring ruin upon: His words damned him.
5. Obs. To adjudge guilty; doom.
—v.i.
6. To swear; curse.
—to damn with faint praise To praise so reluctantly as to imply adverse criticism.
—noun
1. A curse; an oath.
2. Anything as valueless as an oath. [<OF damner <L damnare condemn to punishment]