different between damn vs boycott

English

Etymology

Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnare (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæm/
• Rhymes: -æm
• Homophone: dam

Verb

damn (third-person singular simple present damns, present participle damning, simple past and past participle damned)

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

2. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
3. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.

4. To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
   • November 8, 1708, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell

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

5. (profane) To curse; put a curse upon.

6. (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
   • c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury

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Adjective

damn (not comparable)

1. (mildly vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:damned

Translations

Adverb

damn (not comparable)

1. (mildly vulgar) Very; extremely.

Translations

Interjection

damn

1. (mildly vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or suprise, etc. See also dammit.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:dammit

Derived terms

• dang (euphemistic)
• darn (euphemistic)
• dayum (slang, emphatic form)
• dizamn (slang, emphatic form)

Translations

Noun

damn (plural damns)

1. The use of "damn" as a curse.

2. (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.

3. (mildly vulgar, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

Translations

Anagrams

• MDNA, NDMA, NMDA, mDNA, mand, nam'd

English

Etymology

From Charles Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. For the surname see Boycott.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??k?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??k?t/

Verb

boycott (third-person singular simple present boycotts, present participle boycotting, simple past and past participle boycotted)

1. To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.

Synonyms

• blackball, blacklist, embargo, withhold patronage; see also Thesaurus:boycott

Derived terms

• boycotter
• boycottee
• secondary boycott

Related terms

• buycott

Descendants

• ? French: boycott
• ? Portuguese: boicote

Translations

Noun

boycott (plural boycotts)

1. The act of boycotting.

Synonyms

• embargo, taboo; see also Thesaurus:sanction

Translations

Further reading

• boycott on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English boycott.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?j.k?t/

Noun

boycott m (plural boycotts)

1. boycott

Related terms

• boycotter
• boycotteur

Further reading

• “boycott” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).