Usually means: Mend holes in fabric discreetly.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word darn:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. darn: Merriam-Webster
  2. darn, darn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. darn, darn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. darn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. darn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Darn, Darn, darn: Wordnik
  7. darn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. darn: Wiktionary
  9. darn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Darn, darn: Dictionary.com
  11. darn (1), darn (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. darn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Darn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. darn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. darn: Rhymezone
  16. darn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. darn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. darn: FreeDictionary.org
  19. darn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. darn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. darn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  22. darn: Infoplease Dictionary
  23. darn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darn: Legal dictionary

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  1. darn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DARN: Acronym Finder
  2. darn: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darn, darn, darn, darn: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See darned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (euphemistic) Damn.
adverb:  (degree, euphemistic) Damned.
verb:  (transitive, euphemistic) Damn.
noun:  (euphemistic) Damn.
verb:  (transitive, sewing) To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.
noun:  A place mended by darning.

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