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adjective

variants also durned
Definition of darnednext
as in cursed
deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure the darned computer is broken

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darned

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verb

past tense of darn
as in stitched
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches in the old days, holes in socks had to be darned by hand

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