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curse
noun
1 curse
Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
synonyms: curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword.
Roget 735:
adversity,
evil
etc.
619;
failure
etc.
732;
bad luck,
ill luck,
evil luck,
adverse luck,
hard fortune,
hard hap,
hard luck,
hard lot;
frowns of fortune;
evil dispensation,
evil star,
evil genius†;
vicissitudes of life,
ups and downs of life,
broken fortunes;
hard case,
hard lines,
hard life;
sea of troubles;
peck of troubles;
hell upon earth;
slough of despond.
trouble,
hardship,
curse,
blight,
blast,
load,
pressure.
pressure of the times,
iron age,
evil day,
time out of joint;
hard times,
bad times,
sad times;
rainy day,
cloud,
dark cloud,
gathering clouds,
ill wind;
visitation,
infliction;
affliction
etc.
(painfulness)
830;
bitter pill;
care,
trial;
the sport of fortune.
mishap,
mischance,
misadventure,
misfortune;
disaster,
calamity,
catastrophe;
accident,
casualty,
cross,
reverse,
check,
contretemps,
rub;
backset†,
comedown,
setback [U.S.].
losing game;
falling
etc.
v.;
fall,
downfall;
ruination,
ruinousness;
undoing;
extremity;
ruin
etc.
(destruction)
162.
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Dutch: godslastering, krachtterm, vervloeking, verwensing, vloek
Polish: bluzga, bluzg
2 curse
An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group.
synonyms: condemnation, execration.
Roget 908:
malediction,
malison†,
curse,
imprecation,
denunciation,
execration,
anathema,
ban,
proscription,
excommunication,
commination†,
thunders of the Vatican,
fulmination,
maranatha†;
aspersion,
disparagement,
vilification,
vituperation.
abuse;
foul language,
bad language,
strong language,
unparliamentary language;
billingsgate,
sauce,
evil speaking;
cursing
etc.
v.;
profane swearing,
oath;
foul invective,
ribaldry,
rude reproach,
scurrility.
threat
etc.
909;
more bark than bite;
invective
etc.
(disapprobation)
932.
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Dutch: verwensing, vloek
Polish: klątwa, przekleństwo
3 curse
An evil spell:
— A witch put a curse on his whole family.
synonyms: hex, jinx, whammy.
Dutch: beheksing, heks, betovering
Polish: klątwa
4 curse
Something causing misery or death.
synonyms: bane, nemesis, scourge.
Roget 663:
bane,
curse;
evil
etc.
619;
hurtfulness
etc.
(badness)
649†;
painfulness
etc.
(cause of pain)
830;
scourge
etc.
(punishment)
975;
damnosa hereditas [Lat.];
white elephant.
sting,
fang,
thorn,
tang,
bramble,
brier,
nettle.
poison,
toxin;
teratogen;
leaven,
virus venom;
arsenic;
antimony,
tartar emetic;
strychnine,
nicotine;
miasma,
miasm†,
mephitis†,
malaria,
azote†,
sewer gas;
pest.
[poisonous substances, examples]
Albany hemp†,
arsenious oxide,
arsenious acid;
bichloride of mercury;
carbonic acid,
carbonic gas;
choke damp,
corrosive sublimate,
fire damp;
hydrocyanic acid,
cyanide,
Prussic acid,
hydrogen cyanide;
marsh gas,
nux vomica [Lat.],
ratsbane†.
[poisonous plants]
hemlock,
hellebore,
nightshade,
belladonna,
henbane,
aconite;
banewort†,
bhang,
ganja†,
hashish;
Upas tree.
[list of poisonous substances]
Toxline (online).
rust,
worm,
helminth [Med.],
moth,
moth and rust,
fungus,
mildew;
dry rot;
canker,
cankerworm;
cancer;
torpedo;
viper
etc.
(evil doer)
913;
demon
etc.
980.
[Science of poisons]
toxicology.
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Roget 830:
painfulness
etc.
adj.;
trouble,
care
etc.
(pain)
828;
trial;
affliction,
infliction;
blow,
stroke,
burden,
load,
curse;
bitter pill,
bitter draught;
waters of bitterness.
annoyance,
grievance,
nuisance,
vexation,
mortification,
sickener†;
bore,
bother,
pother,
hot water,
sea of troubles"
[Hamlet],
hornet's nest,
plague,
pest.
cancer,
ulcer,
sting,
thorn;
canker
etc.
(bane)
663;
scorpion
etc.
(evil doer)
913;
dagger
etc.
(arms)
727;
scourge
etc.
(instrument of punishment)
975;
carking care,
canker worm of care.
mishap,
misfortune
etc.
(adversity)
735;
desagrement [Fr.],
esclandre [Fr.],
rub.
source of irritation,
source of annoyance;
wound,
open sore;
sore subject,
skeleton in the closet;
thorn in the flesh,
thorn in one's side;
where the shoe pinches,
gall and wormwood.
sorry sight,
heavy news,
provocation;
affront
etc.
929;
head and front of one's offending"
[Othello].
infestation,
molestation;
malignity
etc.
(malevolence)
907.
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Dutch: verderf, Nemesis, anathema, doem, maledictie, nemesis, vervloeking, vloek
Polish: przekleństwo
5 curse
A severe affliction.
synonym: torment.
Dutch: Tantaluskwelling
verb
1 curse
2 curse
3 curse
Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon:
— The bad witch cursed the child.
synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict.
Roget 908:
curse,
accurse†,
imprecate,
damn,
swear at;
curse with bell book and candle;
invoke curses on the head of,
call down curses on the head of;
devote to destruction.
execrate,
beshrew†,
scold;
anathematize
etc.
(censure)
932;
bold up to execration,
denounce,
proscribe,
excommunicate,
fulminate,
thunder against;
threaten
etc.
909.
curse and swear;
swear,
swear like a trooper;
fall a cursing,
rap out an oath,
damn.
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Dutch: vervloeking, vloek, verdoemen, vermaledijen, vervloeken, verwensen
4 curse
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cursing
adjective
Roget 908:
cursing,
cursed
etc.
v..
noun
Roget 908:
malediction,
malison†,
curse,
imprecation,
denunciation,
execration,
anathema,
ban,
proscription,
excommunication,
commination†,
thunders of the Vatican,
fulmination,
maranatha†;
aspersion,
disparagement,
vilification,
vituperation.
abuse;
foul language,
bad language,
strong language,
unparliamentary language;
billingsgate,
sauce,
evil speaking;
cursing
etc.
v.;
profane swearing,
oath;
foul invective,
ribaldry,
rude reproach,
scurrility.
threat
etc.
909;
more bark than bite;
invective
etc.
(disapprobation)
932.
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Moby thesaurus: Rabelaisian, abusive, bad language, billingsgate, blasphemous, blue language, calumniatory, calumnious, colorful language, comminatory, contumelious, cussing, damnatory, denunciatory, dirty, dirty language, dirty talk, dysphemism, dysphemistic, epithetic, evil speaking, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execration, execratory, filth, filthy language, foul, foul language, fulminatory, imprecation, imprecatory, maledictory, obscene, obscenity, profane, profane swearing, profanity, raw, ribald, ribaldry, risque, scatologic, scatology, scurrile, scurrilous, strong language, swearing, unparliamentary language, unrepeatable expressions, vile, vile language, vituperative, vulgar language ... show more.
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