different between damn vs imprecate

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)

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.

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Anagrams

• MDNA, NDMA, NMDA, mDNA, mand, nam'd

English

Etymology

From Latin imprecari (“to invoke (good or evil) upon, pray to, call upon”), from in (“upon”) + precari (“to pray”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mp??ke?t/

Verb

imprecate (third-person singular simple present imprecates, present participle imprecating, simple past and past participle imprecated)

1. (transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 119

     To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; [...]

Related terms

• imprecation

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Further reading

• imprecate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• imprecate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• imprecate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

imprecate

1. inflection of imprecare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
2. feminine plural of imprecato

Latin

Participle

imprec?te

1. vocative masculine singular of imprec?tus