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damnedest

verb

Meaning

  1. To condemn to hell.
  2. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
  3. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
  4. To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
  5. To curse; put a curse upon.
  6. To invoke damnation; to curse.
  7. God-forsaken.
  8. Variant of profane damn.
  9. One's best effort.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

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Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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