(v. t.) To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
(v. t.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
(v. t.) To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
(v. i.) To invoke damnation; to curse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(2) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(3) 4.28am GMT This is the portion of the night where we all say "Oh damn I forgot that person died."
(4) Damn that Beltran, what a clutch postseason performer.
(5) Whatever the level of the fine, the judge's remarks are damning."
(6) Respectable Europeans may damn the nationalist parties that have risen up against mass immigration as “far right”.
(7) Mortgage lenders are failing to follow rules designed to help people avoid repossession, according to a damning report published today.
(8) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(9) She recently collaborated on two damning reports into punitive house burnings and extra-judicial killings in Chechnya, allegedly carried out by Kadyrov's forces.
(10) A $4 supermarket sandwich has to be pretty damn good for two adults to start fighting over it.
(11) The government’s flagship free schools programme has been dealt a blow with the announcement that a third school is to close after a damning Ofsted report found that leadership, teaching, pupil behaviour and achievement were all “inadequate”, the lowest possible rating.
(12) Claims that the soldiers violated the Geneva conventions were made in the course of damning criticism of the soldiers' conduct and that of the MoD by Patrick O'Connor QC, counsel for the Iraqis.
(13) Some on the right believe it's a damning indictment of the welfare state.
(14) The culture, media and sport select committee was also damning of the police, saying Scotland Yard should have broadened its original investigation in 2006, and not just focused on Clive Goodman, the NoW's royal reporter.
(15) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
(16) And, damningly, she had clearly been dosed with Temazapan for many months previously.
(17) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
(18) Its assessment is a damning one on a health service that was struggling with a multitude of problems and at a time of great change.
(19) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
(20) If we remain silent, the racists will treat this as tacit endorsement – and history will damn us for it.
Damp
Definition:
(n.) Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
(n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
(n.) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
(superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
(superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk.
(n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
(n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(2) These two quantities were used to calculate the damping factor.
(3) Children still received an education, it was just that increasing numbers did so in damp and dilapidated buildings.
(4) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(5) The frequency distribution of the natural, damped and resonance frequencies of the second-order activities was found to show one, two or three modes in each frequency range of the delta, theta and beta rhythms in ninety normal adult EEGs.
(6) vittatus eggs laid on damp mud were placed in dry rockpools for 10 weeks and kept dry for a further 6 weeks in the laboratory.
(7) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(8) Performing this reaction in H2 18O gave [18O]dps(ATCGTC) (a pentamer containing an 18O-labeled 5'-phosphorothioate) which was converted to [18O]dAMPS with nuclease P1.
(9) The damping time of the acceleration wave also had a negative correlation with age.
(10) The former time-pattern displays a fast rise and an exponential decay, while the latter exhibits a damped sine wave.
(11) Studies of activity levels indicate that tsetse flies should aggregate in damp situations where the activity levels is minimal, whereas in practice the flies are distributed throughout the whole of gradient.
(12) In response to dynamic forces the platform showed a resononance frequency of about 50 Hz, with a damping factor of 0.15.
(13) 4-DAMP (4-diphenylacetoxy N-methylpiperidine; a M3-receptor antagonist), strongly inhibited the ACh-induced constrictions.
(14) 4-Diphenylacetoxy-1:1-dimethyl cyclohexane (carbo-4-DAMP) is the carbon analogue of 4-diphenylacetoxy-N-methylpiperidine (4-DAMP) methiodide.
(15) Posture control performance was quantified in three variables (swiftness, stiffness, damping).
(16) The first 2 ms of these transients were described by a linear model in which the fibre is regarded as a rod composed of infinitesimally small, identical segments containing a mass, one undamped elastic element and in the case of relaxed fibres two damped elastic elements in series, or in the case of activated fibres three such elastic elements in series.
(17) This would implicate the existence of a dynamic control through which the sensory system may register and damp the pressure response.
(18) Trying to solve those problems by closing the borders is like trying to deal with rising damp by bolting your front door Trying to solve those problems by closing the borders is like trying to deal with rising damp by bolting your front door.
(19) Response is dependent upon the external impulse plus system inertia, damping and stiffness.
(20) In humans, ethanol produces a slow damped oscillation in the steady electrical potential of the eye, which is generated primarily by the RPE.