different between damn vs impugn

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

Borrowed from Middle French impugner, from Latin impugn?, from im- + pugn? (“fight”), from pugnus (“fist”), as in English pugilism (“fighting with fists, boxing”); from Proto-Indo-European roots.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pju?n/

• Homophone: impune

Verb

impugn (third-person singular simple present impugns, present participle impugning, simple past and past participle impugned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To assault, attack.
2. (transitive) To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of.

Quotations

• 1859 — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

  Let the opinions impugned be the belief in a God and in a future state, or any of the commonly received doctrines of morality.

• 1864 — Abraham Lincoln, Fourth State of the Union Address

  There have been much impugning of motives and much heated controversy as to the proper means and best mode of advancing the Union cause.

• 1872 — Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Principles

  At home, at a period of immense prosperity, with a people contented and naturally loyal, we find to our surprise the most extravagant doctrines professed and the fundamental principles of our most valuable institutions impugned, and that too by persons of some authority.

• 1889 — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch. xxv

  It is a hardy question, fair sir and Boss, since it doth go far to impugn the wisdom of even our holy Mother Church herself.

• 1922 — Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars, ch. 21

  He is not dead. When he revives he will return to his quarters with a fine tale of his bravery and there will be none to impugn his boasts.

Synonyms

• (to question the validity of): call into question, challenge, contest, contradict, deny, disavow, dispute, oppugn, negate

Antonyms

• (to question the validity of): authenticate, endorse, support

Derived terms

• impugnable
• impugner

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Anagrams

• Muping, umping