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damnation
[dam-ney-shuhn] 
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damnation
[dam-ney-shuhn]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | everlasting punishment |
| Synonyms: | condemnation, doom, hell, perdition, suffering, torment |
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| Main Entry: | condemnation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blaming, conviction |
| Synonyms: | accusation, blame, censure, damnation, denouncement, denunciation, disapproval, doom, judgment, proscription, reproach, reprobation, reproof, sentence, stricture |
| Antonyms: | absolution, acquittal, clearance, discharge, exoneration, freeing, pardon, release |
| Main Entry: | execration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hating |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, anathema, blasphemy, condemnation, contempt, curse, cursing, cussing, damnation, denunciation, detestation, detesting, excoriation, hatred, imprecation, loathing, malediction, odium, profanity, swearing, vilification |
| Antonyms: | liking, loving |
| Main Entry: | judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doom, fate |
| Synonyms: | affliction, castigation, chastisement, correction, damnation, infliction, manifestation, misfortune, mortification, punishment, retribution, visitation |
| Notes: | judgment is the U.S. preferred spelling while judgement is the British preferred spelling |
| Main Entry: | malediction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curse |
| Synonyms: | anathema, commination, curse word, cuss, cuss word, damn, damnation, damning, darn, denunciation, dirty name, dirty word, execration, expletive, four-letter word, imprecation, jinx, no-no, oath, swear word, whammy |
| Antonyms: | blessing |
| Main Entry: | perdition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, affliction, bottomless pit, condemnation, damnation, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, infernal regions, inferno, loss of the soul, lower world, nether world, pit, place of torment, punishment, purgatory, ruin, suffering, underworld |
| Main Entry: | sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegal or immoral action |
| Synonyms: | anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, evil-doing, fault, gluttony, guilt, immorality, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccability, peccadillo, peccancy, pride, shortcoming, sinfulness, sloth, tort, transgression, trespass, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, goodness, morality |
| Main Entry: | excommunication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expulsion |
| Synonyms: | damnation, dismissal, removal, suspension |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Malediction. |
| Category: | 2. Diffusive Sympathetic Affections |
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-nouns
malediction, malison, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation., abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing; profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility., threat; more bark than bite; invective (disapprobation).
-verbs
curse, accurse, imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction., execrate, beshrew, scold; anathematize (censure); bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten., curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn.
-adjectives
cursing, cursed
-phrases
delenda est Carthago.
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