different between damn vs damnify

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

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Adverb

damn (not comparable)

1. (mildly vulgar) Very; extremely.

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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)

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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.

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Anagrams

• MDNA, NDMA, NMDA, mDNA, mand, nam'd

English

Etymology

From Old French damnifier, from Latin damnifico.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæmn?fa?/

Verb

damnify (third-person singular simple present damnifies, present participle damnifying, simple past and past participle damnified)

1. (obsolete) To damage physically; to injure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:

     he saw himselfe so freshly reare, / As if late fight had nought him damnifyde […]

   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, I:

     The infectious raines most damnifying the poore saylers, who must be upon the decks to hand in their sailes, abiding the brunt […]

   • 1704, Daniel Defoe, The Storm:

     The High Tide at Bristol spoil'd or damnify'd 1500 Hogsheds of Sugars and Tobaccoes, besides great quantities of other Goods.

2. (law) To cause injuries or loss to.

Derived terms

• indemnify

Related terms

• damn
• damnific

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