curse vs damn

curse

verb
  • To place a curse upon (a person or object). 

  • To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment. 

  • To use offensive or morally inappropriate language. 

  • To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet. 

  • To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. 

noun
  • A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone. 

  • The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment. 

  • A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane. 

  • A vulgar epithet. 

damn

verb
  • To curse; put a curse upon. 

  • To condemn to hell. 

  • To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment. 

  • To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal. 

  • To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively. 

adv
  • Very; extremely. 

adj
  • Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody. 

intj
  • Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit. 

noun
  • The smallest amount of concern or consideration. 

  • The use of "damn" as a curse. 

  • A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot. 

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