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Curse   /kərs/   Listen
noun
Curse  n.  
1.
An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction. "Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses."
2.
Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation. " The priest shall write these curses in a book." "Curses, like chickens, come home to roost."
3.
The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment. "The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance." "All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget, Is propagated curse."
The curse of Scotland (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds.
Not worth a curse. See under Cress.
Synonyms: Malediction; imprecation; execration. See Malediction.


verb
Curse  v. t.  (past & past part. cursed or curst; pres. part. cursing)  
1.
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. "Thou shalt not... curse the ruler of thy people." "Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed."
2.
To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment. "On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those."
To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell.


Curse  v. i.  To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear. "Then began he to curse and to swear." "His spirits hear me, And yet I need must curse."





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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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