Third-person singular present tense of damn; to condemn to hell, curse, or express strong disapproval of something.
From damn, which comes from Old French damner, derived from Latin damnare (to condemn). The religious sense comes from Christian theology about divine judgment.
The word 'damn' started as purely religious language — priests would use it to talk about God's judgment — but now we say 'damn traffic' or 'damn weather,' which would have shocked medieval people who thought you needed God's authority to actually damn something.
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