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cursedcurs‧ed /ˈkɜːsɪd $ ˈkɜːr-/ adjective - Collins' novel is about a cursed jewel stolen from an idol's eye.
- There was not a drink to be had after midnight in this cursed town.
- Katherine Lundy was determined that her children would grow up unaffected and untainted by the cursed country.
- Now he had no way to track the cursed creature ... How very quickly Carnelian had acted!
- She wouldn't speak, and both of us felt cursed.
- The cursed item can not be removed, either, once put on.
- This is commonly reported by the cursed survivors of Auschwitz.
► be cursed with/by something- He is cursed with this evaluative frame of mind.
- He is cursed with this understanding.
- I learned he had the same goofy sense of humor I was cursed with.
- Instead, he might be cursed with one who would rob him blind and charge him three-times the wages for the privilege.
- Lydia Glasher writes that the wearer of these diamonds will be cursed by the wrong she did.
- She loses her wings and dies, leaving him to be cursed by Madge.
- These poor chaps were searching desperately for a project which would not be cursed with the ephemeral vulgarity of their usual tasks.
1be cursed with/by something to be affected by something bad: The museum has been cursed by financial problems since it opened.2literary suffering as a result of a punishment by God or a god |