The Clue
Headed for ruin (6 letter answer)
The Answer
DAMNED
Tags
Notes
The answer DAMNED is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1200 puzzles.
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Extremely
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Definition
DAMNED as a noun:
1. people who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he had visited the realm of the damned"
DAMN as a verb:
1. (curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict) = wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"
DAMNED as an adjective:
1. (blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal) = expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"
2. (cursed, damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved) = in danger of the eternal punishment of hell; "poor damned souls"
DAMNED as an adverb:
1. (damned, damnably, cursedly) = in a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely , endlessly persistent!"