A casual or careless appeal invoking God (or something sacred) in asseveration or imprecation, without intent of reverence, made in corroboration…

A curse, a malediction.

An expression of blame, censure, or reproof; a rebuke. Also: †a verbal insult, an opprobrious expression or epithet.

figurative. Something very destructive, terrible, or startling; esp. an awful denunciation, censure, or threat proceeding from a high authority…

An act or instance of reviling; a reviling or abusive speech or remark.

= thunder-clap, n. figurative. Obsolete.

An instance of this; a reviling or abusive speech or remark.

An imprecation of a curse, an execration or malediction expressing anger.

An imprecation, a malediction. Obsolete or dialect.

figurative. A sudden startling or terrifying occurrence, act, utterance, or piece of news. (Cf. thunderbolt, n. 2.)

An emphatic exclamation with which a person fills his or her speech; (hence) an oath, curse, or swear word, a profanity.

A great oath; an imprecation, a curse. Cf. rap, v.2 8a. Obsolete.

A curse or affliction, esp. one sent by God; a cause of ruin; a scourge, a blight. Now rare.

An imprecation, a curse.

An utterance of ‘Goddammit’; an imprecation, an oath.

An utterance of ‘God damn (me)’; an imprecation, an oath.

(a) a vulgar or ‘smutty’ word; (b) a word made disreputable by what are regarded as its discreditable associations.

Used euphemistically as a verbal representation of a dash put instead of an oath or profane word. Cf. blank, v. 5c. So (as adjectives or adverbs) bla…

humorous. An expletive. rare.

A profane oath, a swear-word; also, a fit or bout of swearing.

a curse.

A euphemism for: A curse.

An utterance of ‘goldarn’; an imprecation, an oath. Cf. goddam, n.1

A word used in profane swearing, a profane word.

slang. A strong expletive. Cf. round, adj. 21a. Obsolete. rare.

= cuss word n. at cuss, n. compounds.

A damn, cuss.

a parting curse.