damn
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Is damn a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn.Examples: "The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity."; "Only God can damn."; "I damn you eternally, fiend!"intransitivetransitive
2. (sometimes vulgar) To curse; put a curse upon.Examples: "That man stole my wallet. Damn him!"Synonyms: comminate, execrate, imprecatesometimesvulgar
3. (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.Examples: "c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury […] while I inwardly damn."Synonyms: ban, execrate, point the bonearchaic
adj (English)
1. (sometimes vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.Examples: "Shut the damn door!"; "Damn freaks!"; "Damn psychos!"Synonyms: 4ucking, accursed, bally, blasted, bleeding, bleeping, blessed, blimmingnot-comparablesometimesvulgar
adv (English)
1. (sometimes vulgar) Very; extremely.Examples: "That car was going damn fast!"; "How are you damn quick?"; "You must be so damn rapid."Synonyms: acutely, awfully, beyond, damn, drastically, exceedingly, extraordinarily, highlynot-comparablesometimesvulgar
intj (English)
1. (sometimes vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.Synonyms: 4uck, ay, chihuahua, blast, bugger, bummer, byrlady, consarn itsometimesvulgar
noun (English)
1. (sometimes vulgar) The word "damn" employed as a curse.Examples: "He said a few damns and left."sometimesvulgar
2. (sometimes vulgar, chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.Examples: "The new hires aren't worth a damn."Synonyms: ace, tinge, atom, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, glimpsesometimesvulgar
3. (sometimes vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.Examples: "I don't give a damn."sometimesvulgar
noun (English)
1. (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of diaminomaleonitrile.Examples: "Several nitrogen heterocycles, including imidazoles,¹⁻³ pyrazines,⁴ and diazepines,^(1, 3) have been prepared from diaminomaleonitrile (DAMN, 1), the tetramer of hydrogen cyanide."; "Diaminomaleonitrile (DAMN), a stable tetramer of HCN, has long been renowned as a precursor for the formation of nucleobases."abbreviationalt-ofuncountable
2. (robotics) Acronym of distributed architecture for mobile navigation.Examples: "The Distributed Architecture for Mobile Navigation (DAMN) has been successfully used to integrate various independently developed subsystems, providing systems that perform road following, cross-country navigation, or teleoperation while avoiding obstacles and meeting mission objectives."; "In each robot, a path planning algorithm, an obstacle avoidance routine, a slope assessment algorithm, and a task execution unit have all been integrated into a single behavior-based architecture. Navigation is implemented using the DAMN architecture to combine the competing outputs of each behavior module."abbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable
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Definition source: Wiktionary