To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.

To invoke damnation; to curse.

Latin damnare, to condemn -- originally, to condemn as guilty; doom to an unhappy fate; condemn to endless punishment. Damnation comes from the Late Latin damnatio, "the displeasure of God," or condemnation.

wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"