DAMNS
Verb
damns
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of damn
Noun
damns
plural of damn
Anagrams
• mDNAs, mands
Source: Wiktionary
DAMN
Damn, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned; p. pr. & vb. n. Damning.] Etym:
[OE. damnen dap), 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 censhure.
He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. Shak.
2. (Theol.)
Definition: 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.
Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and
intensively.
Damn, v. i.
Definition: To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn."
Goldsmith.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition