“damn” – English explanatory dictionary

noun □ I don’t give a damn used to say emphatically that you do not care at all (informal.) ■ verb 1. used to show annoyance ○ Damn it, we’re going to be late. ○ Damn him, he’s left the front door open! 2. to severely criticise someone or something ○ The new film was damned by the Sunday papers. 3. to condemn someone or something in a religious situation ○ Galileo was damned by the Church for saying that the Earth turned round the Sun. ■ interj used as a mild swear word to show annoyance ○ Damn! I’ve left my umbrella on the train.

(dam), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned (damd or dam´ned); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (dam´ing or dam´ning).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. Condemn, Damage.]
1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure. “He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.” Shak.
2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. “You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] … without hearing.” Pope. “Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.” Pope. Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.

v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. ´While I inwardly damn.´ Goldsmith.