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curse English

Meaning curse meaning

What does curse mean?
Definitions in simple English

curse Noun

— A curse is a wish or hope that something bad will happen to someone or something. The evil queen put a curse on the young girl. — A curse is a swear word. — A curse is the cause of a lot of harm or evil; it is something that brings evil or harm.

curse Verb

— If you curse, you use a swear word. — If you curse someone, you wish or hope that something bad will happen to them. I curse you and all your family for ever!

curse

— verb utter obscenities or profanities The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street — verb heap obscenities upon The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger — noun (= expletive) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger expletives were deleted — verb wish harm upon; invoke evil upon The bad witch cursed the child — noun (= whammy) an evil spell a witch put a curse on his whole family he put the whammy on me — noun (= execration) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group — noun a severe affliction — noun (= bane) something causing misery or death the bane of my life — verb (= excommunicate) exclude from a church or a religious community The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner

Synonyms curse synonyms

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curse English » English

swear abuse damn malediction imprecation cuss scold insult hex oath imprecate revile expletive swearword blaspheme spell curse word swear word dirty word swearing swear at jinx execrate anathematize anathema put a curse on incantation execration blame scourge blasphemy torment slander reprove profanity plague maledict invective bewitch vilification swear-word shout rebuke malison hold a grudge grumble growl excommunicate condemnation condemn

Topics curse topics

What do people use curse to talk about?
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Curse
Language and thought Communication Foolish talk

Obscenity
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Sorcery
Person Healthy

Cause of disease
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Insult
Social behavior Law Trial

Take oath

Conjugation curse conjugation

How do you conjugate curse?

curse · verb

Examples curse examples

How do I use curse in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The witch laid a curse on the unfortunate little girl.
I curse the day that I met Tom.
The curse is very powerful.
As the catterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
Wisdom is a curse when wisdom does nothing for the man who has it.
She speaks five foreign languages, but when she wants to curse she speaks in her mother tongue.
What's your favorite curse word?
Do I curse too much?
She often spoke about our curse.
It's a curse.
It is a curse.
Don't curse or I'll wash your mouth out with soap.
I'm going to put a curse on you.
He knows how to curse in Chinese.
The coffee has got to be as hot as a girl's kiss on the first date, as sweet as those nights in her arms, and as dark as the curse of her mother when she finds out.
Tom muttered a curse.
Some believe that a curse is cast upon any person who disturbs the tomb of a Pharaoh.
In the dark it's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
The curse was broken.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Movie subtitles

So just realize you have a curable curse, And turn it off!
Therefore, I curse the Gentiles.
The curse no longer has a hold upon me.
Although I do not curse you, but wish with all my heart. that you have not sacrificed me and my daughter. whom I have named Victorine after you, in vain.
Curse and damnation shall befall anyone Who moves to annul King Henry's marriage.
Witches were believed to curse people with diseases with the help of sorcerer's powder and magic potions.
Mlle. Carlotta, under the spell of his curse will never sing again.
I curse you. I kick you out.
Curse you.
Good heavens! What a terrible curse!
Wait! You have read the curse.
Surely a few thousand years in the earth would take the mumbo-jumbo off any old curse.
You have read the curse.
In the interest of science, even if I believed in the curse, I'd go on with my work for the museum.
Curse your mother's religion!
I curse you and your family!
That is my curse: your immoderation.
P.S. If you refuse this you will present Faust in a house with a curse on it.
What if I curse myself for having let you go?
Curse you, Count Arnheim!
There isn't anything I won't do now to enlist your aid in freeing me of the curse of the Draculas.
Refuse and take their curse.
I think I'll take both the curse and the pants. - Oh.
I wonder if it isn't a curse to be wised up like you and me.
You deceiver, curse you.
Curse you and double curse you.
In season one, Scott thought that the bite was definitely a curse.
Oh, curse the dark.
I was wearin' white socks and wouldn't curse. You guys thought I was a sissy.
Let your pants remain on them and earn their gratitude. - Refuse and take their curse.
And Maule's curse?
He believes in all the witch's tales about hidden treasure and Maule's curse.
That isn't Maule's curse. That's the Pyncheon curse.
Then may you also inherit Maule's curse.
For almost two centuries the Pyncheons have lived in fear of my ancestor's curse.
That's my curse.
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News and current affairs

In Japan, sad to say, that sort of fiscal austerity remains something of a curse.
Thus, the resources that should benefit developing countries instead become a curse that brings corruption, coups, and civil wars.
Why do oil riches turn out to be a curse as often as they are a blessing?
What can countries do to ensure that natural resources are a blessing rather than a curse?
Oil exporters need not be prisoners of a curse that has befallen others.
In order to understand the importance of what is happening, we must begin by ridding ourselves of the curse of our times.
In retrospect, German reunification was more a curse than a blessing.
How can the periphery get out of the self-inflicted historical curse of a central bank and a national money.
Are GMOs a blessing or a curse for these people and the farmers among them?
Resources should be a blessing, not a curse.
The killing caused Ghana's government to declare a national emergency, and triggered an outcry over the curse of tribalism.
As so often in the rest of the world, windfall wealth such as came to Norway because of its oil and gas, can be a curse as much as it is a blessing.
For others, globalization is a curse under which poor countries are bound to fall further and further behind.
The answer, of course, is that life is more complicated than the contrasting positions of globalization as panacea or curse.
And Morocco, contrary to Algeria, does not suffer from the curse of oil.
The facts are hard to dispute; indeed, the historical record is now so stark that diehard Republicans are probably starting to wonder if there is a curse.
In order to understand the importance of what is happening, we must begin by ridding ourselves of the curse of our times. We are permanent - if consenting - victims of current events, of what is happening at any particular moment.
For many poor countries, wealth in natural resources is a curse rather than a benefit.
But that blessing can also be a curse - and not just for oil-rich countries, with their distorted economies and politics.
Exports are yet to begin, but the threat of the resource curse is already present.
The biggest challenge for the next government is to acknowledge the risks and dangers of the resource curse, and design a new, creative model to avoid it.
Indeed, Australia is one of the few commodity-based economies that has not suffered from the natural-resource curse.

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