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curse
has definitions from the field of religion
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[ verb ] utter obscenities or profanities
Examples "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)Two counts of assault on an officer , resisting_arrest , disturbance and cursing , police said . (Amber Dean, Encounter with Evil....)Vince cursed steadily . (Brett Halliday, The Careless Corpse....)Shayne stepped back to let him slump to the ground , and_then dived over him through the open_door into Harris who was cursing loudly and trying to drag a gun from a shoulder_holster , somewhat impeded by the steering_wheel . (Todhunter Ballard, The Night Riders....)Barton cursed under his breath . |
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[ verb ] heap obscenities upon
Examples "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger" Used in print (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)When they stood about his tent , chaffing each other , exchanging their obscenities , cursing command or weather , he had studied their faces . (W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)I heard Pa cursing all_the_way downstairs . (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)When he was going_to town , nothing was good enough - he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace . Related terms |
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[ noun ] profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
Examples "expletives were deleted" Used in print (Edwin Booth, Outlaw Town....)Presently he heard footsteps crossing the yard , and Jess 's smothered curses . Related terms |
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[ verb ] wish harm upon; put a curse on
Synonyms damn imprecate bedamn anathemize maledict anathemise beshrew Examples "The bad witch cursed the child" Used in print (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)In blind panic of grief she accepted Jonathan 's dictum , and believed in her desperation that she had been cursed by God . (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)Grabski sat in a sweat saturated undershirt , cursing the excessive heat which clamped an uneasy stillness before sundown . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an evil spell
Examples "a witch put a curse on his whole family" "he put the whammy on me" Used in print (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)After a minute he went_on , `` People must think the curse is on me , seeing you fresh as an apple and me old and gray '' . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
Synonyms Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)On the street outside , Hieronymus envisions a holocaust of the vanities of this world , such a burning of artistic and erotic productions as his namesake actually brought to pass in Florence , and prophetically he issues his curse : `` Gladius_Dei super terram cito et velociter '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (religion) exclude from a church or a religious community
Synonyms Examples "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner" Related terms |
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[ noun ] something causes misery or death
Examples "the bane of my life" Related terms |
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