damn

damn
[[t]dæ̱m[/t]]
damns, damning, damned
1) EXCLAM (feelings) Damn, damn it, and dammit are used by some people to express anger or impatience. [INFORMAL, RUDE]

Don't be flippant, damn it! This is serious.

2) ADJ: ADJ n (emphasis) Damn is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying. [INFORMAL, RUDE]

There's not a damn thing you can do about it now.

ADV: ADV adj/adv
Damn is also an adverb.

As it turned out, I was damn right... Let's have a damn good party.

3) VERB If you say that a person or a news report damns something such as a policy or action, you mean that they are very critical of it.

[V n] ...a sensational book in which she damns the ultra-right party.

[V n] ...a report damning the chocolate advertising people for targeting women in their campaigns.

Syn:
4) → See also , damning
5) PHRASE: V inflects (emphasis) If you say that someone does not give a damn about something, you are emphasizing that they do not care about it at all. [INFORMAL, RUDE]
6) PHRASE: PHR before v, PHR n/adj (emphasis) People use damn near to emphasize that what they are saying is not actually true, but is very close to being true. [INFORMAL, RUDE]

I damn near went crazy...

That's a question damn near every woman who ever lived has had to answer for herself.

7) PHRASE: usu PHR n (emphasis) Some people say as near as damn it or as near as dammit to emphasize that what they have said is almost completely accurate, but not quite. [BRIT, INFORMAL, RUDE]

I have been leading as near as damn it a normal life this past five or six weeks...

The stadium will be as near as dammit empty.


English dictionary. 2008.

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