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noun. An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.

noun. Evil or misfortune that comes as if in response to such an appeal.

noun. A source or cause of evil; a scourge.

noun. A profane word or phrase; a swearword.

noun. A censure, ban, or anathema.

noun. Menstruation. Used with the.

intransitive verb. To invoke evil or misfortune upon; damn.

intransitive verb. To swear at.

intransitive verb. To bring evil upon; afflict.

intransitive verb. To put under a ban or anathema; excommunicate.

intransitive verb. To utter curses; swear.

noun. The expression of a wish of evil to another; an imprecation of evil; a malediction.

noun. Evil which has been solemnly invoked upon one.

noun. That which brings or causes evil or severe affliction or trouble; a great evil; a bane; a scourge: the opposite of blessing: as, strong drink is a curse to millions.

noun. Condemnation; sentence of evil or punishment.

noun. Literally, a cress: in popular use identified with curse, an imprecation, and used only as a symbol of utter worthlessness in certain negative expressions: as, “not worth a curse,” “to care not a curse,” etc.

To wish evil to; imprecate or invoke evil upon; call down calamity, injury, or destruction upon; execrate in speech.

Hence To put under ecclesiastical ban or anathema; excommunicate; condemn or sentence to the disabilities of excommunication.

To bring or place a curse upon; blight or blast with a curse or malignant evils; vex, harass, or afflict with great calamities.

To utter imprecations; affirm or deny with imprecations of divine vengeance; use blasphemous or profane language; swear.

intransitive verb. To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.

transitive verb. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. See under Bell.

noun. An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.

noun. Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.

noun. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.

noun. the nine of diamonds.

noun. See under Cress.

noun. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.

noun. A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.

noun. A vulgar epithet.

noun. A woman's monthly period.

verb. To place a curse upon (a person or object).

verb. To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet at someone or something.

verb. To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.

verb. heap obscenities upon

verb. utter obscenities or profanities

noun. something causing misery or death

verb. wish harm upon; invoke evil upon

noun. a severe affliction

noun. an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

noun. an evil spell

noun. profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger

verb. exclude from a church or a religious community

"Thou seest, not alone on thy doomed race rests a curse; the fierce anger of God, denounced against sin -- the _curse_, falls upon his dearest children."