When you curse, you say words you wouldn't want your mother or your priest to hear you saying. A curse can also be wishing something awful on someone, like the witch who puts a curse on Sleeping Beauty.
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
Noun
profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted"
Noun
an evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"
Noun
an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
Noun
a severe affliction
Noun
something causes misery or death; "the bane of my life"
Verb
utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
Verb
wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"
Verb
heap obscenities upon; "The taxi driver who felt he didn''t get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"
Verb
exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
v. t.
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury
upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
v. t.
To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm
or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep
trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
v. i.
To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with
imprecations; to swear.
v. t.
An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury;
malediction.
v. t.
Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in
passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
v. t.
The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which
brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
Curse
Thou shalt not . . . curse the ruler of thy people.
Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed.2.
On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those.
Curse
Then began he to curse and to swear.
His spirits hear me, And yet I need must curse.
Curse
Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.2.
The priest shall write these curses in a book.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.3.
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.
All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget, Is propagated curse.
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
Usage Examples
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.
I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.
It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.
I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies. I'll walk by the movie theater and say, 'Let's go see that,' and my kids will say, 'No, it's rated R. It's not appropriate for kids.' I'm like Uncle Dad. We have fun. I don't live with them, but I drive over four days a week.
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
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