give a damn

: to make a present of

: to grant or bestow by formal action

: to accord or yield to another

: capacity or tendency to yield to force or strain : flexibility

: the ability of a material to bend or stretch

: to condemn to a punishment or fate

: to condemn vigorously and often irascibly for some real or fancied fault or defect

: to condemn as a failure by public criticism

: the utterance of the word damn as a curse

: a minimum amount or degree (as of care or consideration) : the least bit

: damned