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Curse   /kərs/   Listen
Curse

noun
1.
Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.  Synonyms: curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword.
2.
An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group.  Synonyms: condemnation, execration.
3.
An evil spell.  Synonyms: hex, jinx, whammy.  "He put the whammy on me"
4.
Something causing misery or death.  Synonyms: bane, nemesis, scourge.
5.
A severe affliction.  Synonym: torment.
verb
(past & past part. cursed or curst; pres. part. cursing)
1.
Utter obscenities or profanities.  Synonyms: blaspheme, cuss, imprecate, swear.
2.
Heap obscenities upon.
3.
Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon.  Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict.
4.
Exclude from a church or a religious community.  Synonyms: excommunicate, unchurch.



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"Curse" Quotes from Famous Books



... father, "canst thou think of thine own sordid rights in the midst of death and frenzy? My son?—thou art the fiend who has occasioned my wretchedness in this world, and who will share my eternal misery in the next. Hence from my sight, and my curse go with thee!" ...
— The Surgeon's Daughter • Sir Walter Scott

... honest fellow," said Craigengelt, "and some of my special friends; but, curse me if I know the reason, the women could never bear me, and always contrived to trundle me out of favour before ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott

... threats were yet coming in that the night riders would burn his house and take his life. Across the turnpike were the fields and untouched woodlands of Marjorie, and it looked as though the hand of Providence had blessed one side of the road and withered the other with a curse. On top of the orchard fence, to the western side of the house, Jason sat a while. The curse was descending on Gray's innocent head and he had had the weakness and the folly to lift his eyes to the blessing across the way. As Mavis had pointed out the way to Gray, so ...
— The Heart Of The Hills • John Fox, Jr.

... thou gayest fancy-weaver, Heart-betrayer, soul-deceiver, Come with all thy clinging kisses; Bringing all thy beaming blisses; It may serve the cynic's parts, If he curse and if he scout thee, But, O, where were gentle hearts, If they had ...
— Oklahoma and Other Poems • Freeman E. Miller

... pay the forfeit. Has disgrace or insult been heaped upon her? a life of eighty years is not long enough to bring down vengeance on the offender. So with Harpstenah. Her life had not been a blessing to herself—she would make it a curse to others. ...
— Dahcotah - Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling • Mary Eastman


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