Usually means: Exclamation expressing surprise or annoyance.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word tarnation:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. tarnation: Merriam-Webster
  2. tarnation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tarnation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tarnation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Tarnation, tarnation: Wordnik
  6. tarnation: Wiktionary
  7. tarnation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. tarnation: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. tarnation: Dictionary.com
  10. tarnation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Tarnation (band), Tarnation (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. TARNATION: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  13. Tarnation: The Word Detective
  14. tarnation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tarnation, tarnation, tarnation: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tarnation: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (tarnation)

noun:  (regional or archaic) The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell.
noun:  (obsolete) Someone or something that causes trouble; troublemaker.
adjective:  Bothersome; devilish.
adjective:  Generic intensifier.
adverb:  Very; extremely.

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