| 单词 | accursed |
| 释义 | accursed (once / 1071 pages) adj Use accursed to describe something that's under a curse or spell — or just seems like it is. You might call your car accursed if it keeps mysteriously dying in the middle of the road for no apparent reason. An accursed house might be haunted by a spirit or under an evil spell, or you might describe it as accursed if unexplained things happen in it. You can also use the adjective simply to describe something you're angry about: "This accursed town! I can't wait to move to California!" In the 13th century, the word was acursede, "lying under a curse," from the now-obsolete acursen, "pronounce a curse upon." WORD FAMILYaccursed: accursedly+/accurse: accursed, accursing USAGE EXAMPLES"This accursed terror continues to target our people," Turkey's EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik, a ruling party MP from Adana, wrote on Twitter. BBC(Nov 24, 2016) Mr. Erdan called on people to come and “show the accursed terrorists that they will not beat us.” New York Times(Oct 09, 2016) Horror movies about sex and its accursed consequences have shape-shifted symbolically since Bela Lugosi’s teeth penetrated Helen Chandler’s neck in the 1931 “Dracula.” New York Times(Jul 28, 2016) adj under a curse Syn accurst, maledict cursed, curst deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier |
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