Found 4 hits - Term: damning, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
damn \damn\ da^m, v. t. imp. p. p. damned da^md or
da^m"ne^d; p. pr. vb. n. damning da^m"i^ng or
da^m"ni^ng. 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.
1913 webster
he shall not live; look, with a spot i damn him.
--shak.
1913 webster
2. theol. to doom to punishment in the future world; to
consign to perdition; to curse.
1913 webster
3. to condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as
by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
1913 webster
you are not so arrant a critic as to damn them the
works of modern poets . . . without hearing.
--pope.
1913 webster
damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
and without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
--pope.
1913 webster
note: damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively,
and intensively.
1913 webster
see also:
damned damning condemn damage
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
damning \damn"ing\, a.
that damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
damning
adj : threatening with damnation syn: damnatory
see also:
damnatory
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
45 moby thesaurus words for "damning":
absolute, adducible, admissible, attestative, attestive, authentic,
based on, certain, circumstantial, conclusive, convincing,
cumulative, decisive, determinative, documentary, documented,
evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, final,
firsthand, founded on, grounded on, hearsay, implicit,
incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, irrefutable,
irresistible, material, nuncupative, overwhelming, presumptive,
probative, reliable, significant, suggestive, sure, symptomatic,
telling, valid, weighty
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