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damned

adj
/dæmd/

Definitions

  1. Godforsaken.

    • You're children of the damned // like candles, watch them burn // burning in the light // you'll burn again tonight.

  2. Variant of profane damn, used to express contempt, exasperation, etc. towards someone or…

    Variant of profane damn, used to express contempt, exasperation, etc. towards someone or something.

    • Their damned lawyers can go to hell.
    • I can't get this damned thing to work.
    • He became furious when developers tore them down to build newer and bigger ones. “It’s like a damned theme park!” he rages. “What happened to the frickin’ sin?”

  3. Ellipsis of I'll be damned.

    • Damned if I know.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Very.

      • What's so damned important about a football game?
      • […] Jacques Cartier found the new country quite exciting, gleefully naming it Canada, from the Eskimo word canuck, which I’m told means, “I’m damned sick of all this snow and that polar bear tried to eat me.”

    2. simple past and past participle of damn

The neighborhood

Derived

as be damned, be damned, Billy-be-damned, damned if I know, damned if one does and damned if one doesn't, damned well, ever-damned, fore-damned, foredamned, I'll be damned, purser rigged and parish damned, undamned

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at damned. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01damned02variant03deviation04offense05offending06blamed

A definitional loop anchored at damned. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at damned

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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