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not care a damn
Variant of damn
transitive verb damned, damning
- Obsolete to condemn as guilty
- to condemn to an unhappy fate; doom
- Theol. to condemn to endless punishment
- to condemn as bad or inferior: often used in the imperative as a curse
- to criticize adversely
- to cause the ruin of; make fail
- to swear at by saying “damn”
intransitive verb
to swear or curse; say “damn,” etc.
noun
the saying of “damn” as a curse
adjective, adverb
Informal damned
interjection
used to express anger, annoyance, disappointment, etc.
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