Verb

(en verb)

To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

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Verb

(en verb)

(theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.

The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.

Only God can ''damn.'' — ''I '''damn you eternally, fiend!

To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

* Shakespeare

He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.

To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.

I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.

To condemn as unfit, harmful, of poor quality, unsuccessful, invalid, immoral or illegal.

* Alexander Pope

You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] without hearing.

(profane) To curse; put a curse upon.

That man stole my wallet. Damn him!

(archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.

* Goldsmith:

while I inwardly damn .