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damning adjective [ ˈdamɪŋ ]

• (of a circumstance or piece of evidence) strongly suggesting guilt or error.
• "I was innocent but the evidence was damning"
Similar: incriminating, condemnatory, condemning, damnatory, damaging, derogatory, conclusive, strong, implicatory,
Opposite: vindicatory, inconclusive,

damn verb

• (in Christian belief) be condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell.
• "be forever damned with Lucifer"
Origin: Middle English: from Old French dam(p)ner, from Latin dam(p)nare ‘inflict loss on’, from damnum ‘loss, damage’.


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