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Verb: curse kurs- Utter obscenities or profanities
"The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
- cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate, eff and blind [Brit], eff [Brit] - Heap obscenities upon
"The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger" - Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
"The bad witch cursed the child"
- beshrew [archaic], damn, bedamn [archaic], anathemize, anathemise [Brit], imprecate, maledict, dang [N. Amer], doggone [N. Amer] - Exclude from a church or a religious community
- excommunicate, unchurch
Noun: curse kurs- Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss, cussword [N. Amer] - An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- execration, condemnation - An evil spell
"a witch put a curse on his whole family"
- hex, jinx, whammy, mozz [Austral] - Something causing misery or death
- bane, scourge, nemesis - A severe affliction
- torment
Derived forms: cursed, cursing, curses Type of: abuse, affliction, arouse, blackguard, bring up, call down, call forth, charm, clapperclaw [archaic], conjure, conjure up, denouncement, denunciation, evoke, exclude, express, give tongue to, invoke, keep out, magic spell, magical spell, profanity, put forward, raise, shout, shut, shut out, spell, stir, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize Antonym: bless Encyclopedia: Curse Curse, Death & Spirit |