ADJECTIVE | all | damn, goddamn | used as expletives |
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all | damn, blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal | expletives used informally as intensifiers | |
VERB | communication | damn, curse, beshrew, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict | wish harm upon |
NOUN | attribute | damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam | something of little value |
ADVERB | all | damn, bloody, all-fired, all-firedly | extremely |
Sounds | dae'm | |
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Rhymes | Abraham ... yam: 73 rhymes with aem... |
Meaning | Used as expletives. | |
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Example | "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" | |
Synonym | goddamn | |
Broader | cursed, curst | deserving a curse |
Meaning | expletives used informally as intensifiers. | |
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Examples |
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Synonyms | blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal | |
Broader | cursed, curst | deserving a curse |
Spanish | maldito, puto | |
Catalan | maleït |
Meaning | Something of little value. | |
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Example | "his promise is not worth a damn" | |
Synonyms | darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam | |
Broader | worthlessness, ineptitude | Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful |
Catalan | rave |
Meaning | Extremely. | |
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Synonyms | bloody, all-fired, all-firedly | |
Usage of | intensifier, intensive | A modifier that has little meaning / meaning except to intensify the meaning / meaning it modifies |
Catalan | malaïdament |
Meaning | wish harm upon; invoke evil upon. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
Synonyms | curse, beshrew, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict | |
Broader | raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth | Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic |
Opposite | bless | Give a benediction to |
Spanish | maldecir, maldición | |
Catalan | maleir | |
Adjectives | damnatory | threatening with damnation |
Nouns | damnation | the act of damning |
damnation | the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell |
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