Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to damn
Participle: damned
Gerund: damning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | damn |
| you | damn |
| he;she;it | damns |
| we | damn |
| you | damn |
| they | damn |
Perfect
| I | have damned |
| you | have damned |
| he;she;it | has damned |
| we | have damned |
| you | have damned |
| they | have damned |
Past
| I | damned |
| you | damned |
| he;she;it | damned |
| we | damned |
| you | damned |
| they | damned |
Pluperfect
| I | had damned |
| you | had damned |
| he;she;it | had damned |
| we | had damned |
| you | had damned |
| they | had damned |
Future
| I | will damn |
| you | will damn |
| he;she;it | will damn |
| we | will damn |
| you | will damn |
| they | will damn |
Future Perfect
| I | will have damned |
| you | will have damned |
| he;she;it | will have damned |
| we | will have damned |
| you | will have damned |
| they | will have damned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | damn |
| you | damn |
| he;she;it | damn |
| we | damn |
| you | damn |
| they | damn |
Perfect
| I | have damned |
| you | have damned |
| he;she;it | have damned |
| we | have damned |
| you | have damned |
| they | have damned |
Imperfect
| I | damned |
| you | damned |
| he;she;it | damned |
| we | damned |
| you | damned |
| they | damned |
Pluperfect
| I | had damned |
| you | had damned |
| he;she;it | had damned |
| we | had damned |
| you | had damned |
| they | had damned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would damn |
| you | would damn |
| he;she;it | would damn |
| we | would damn |
| you | would damn |
| they | would damn |
Perfect
| I | would have damned |
| you | would have damned |
| he;she;it | would have damned |
| we | would have damned |
| you | would have damned |
| they | would have damned |
Imperative
| you | damn |
| we | Let's damn |
| you | damn |
Verbs conjugated like 'damn'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'damn'
dam,
damnd,
damp,
darn,
dawn,
amen,
amp,
bam,
ban,
barn,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1280, "to condemn," from O.Fr.
damner, derivative of L. noun
damnare, from
damnum "damage, loss, hurt." Latin word evolved a legal meaning of "pronounce judgment upon." Theological sense is first recorded c.1325; the optative expletive use likely is as old. To be
not worth a damn is from 1817.
Damn Yankee, characteristic Southern U.S. term for "Northerner," is attested from 1812.
2. From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”). See: Middle English '
dampnen'.
Verbs referencing "damn"
Spanish
dañar, Welsh
damnio.
Sample Sentences
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[...] and pay for his passage, it had been suggested to him that being an able seaman he might as well work it and save the money, but this piece of advice he very indignantly rejected: saying, ‘He 'd be damned but for once he 'd go aboard ship, as a gentleman. ’ Accordingly, they took his money, but he no sooner came aboard, than he stowed his kit in the forecastle, arranged to mess with the crew, and the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of evil, that turns things sweetest and holiest to phantoms of horror and affright. That pale, loving mother,—her dying prayers, her forgiving love,—wrought in that demoniac heart of sin only as a damning sentence, bringing with it a fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation. Legree burned the hair, and burned the letter; and when he saw them hissing and crackling in the flame, inly [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)