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Curse   /kərs/   Listen
noun
Curse  n.  
1.
An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction. "Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses."
2.
Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation. " The priest shall write these curses in a book." "Curses, like chickens, come home to roost."
3.
The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment. "The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance." "All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget, Is propagated curse."
The curse of Scotland (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds.
Not worth a curse. See under Cress.
Synonyms: Malediction; imprecation; execration. See Malediction.


verb
Curse  v. t.  (past & past part. cursed or curst; pres. part. cursing)  
1.
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. "Thou shalt not... curse the ruler of thy people." "Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed."
2.
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. "On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those."
To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell.


Curse  v. i.  To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear. "Then began he to curse and to swear." "His spirits hear me, And yet I need must curse."





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"Curse" Quotes from Famous Books



... admiration by this flow of the right sort of talk, "Mr. Denney, did you ever read 'Little Rosebud, or is Beauty a Curse to a Poor Girl?' That sounded just like the detective in that—you remember—where he's talkin' to Clarence Armytage just after he's overheard the old lawyer tell Mark Vinton, the villain, 'If this child lives, you are a ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson
... the conversion of the Indians is, that the system of oppression and cruelty followed in dealing with them, makes them curse the name of God and our holy religion: as the friars in Chiapa write me, nothing short of a miracle can make the Indians believe in Jesus Christ, when they see the execrable and manifest contradiction that exists between His gentle and beneficent doctrines and the conduct of ...
— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt
... his chair, as though he wanted to mitigate as much as possible his terrifying strength and immensity. What for did a fine man like him help to make cordite, the material of militarism, which is the curse of the nations? She wished he could have heard R.J. Campbell speak on peace the other night at the Synod Hall; it was fine. But probably he was a Conservative, for these big men were often unprogressive. She examined him carefully ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... all seven good fairies had spoken, so she stepped forth, her face distorted with hatred and envy, and said: "So I am not thought good enough to be a guest here: you despise me because I am old and ugly. I shall make a gift, and it shall be a curse. When your fine young lady becomes sixteen she shall fall asleep, and nothing you can do will be able to ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various
... lots. Young and slave as I was, I felt the pang of separation from my loved and revered mother; child that I was I mourned for mother, even before our final separation, as one dead to me forever. So early to be deprived of a fond mother, by the "law," gave me my first view of the curse of slavery. Until this time I did not know what trouble was, but from then until the tocsin of freedom was sounded through the glorious Emancipation Proclamation by the immortal Abraham Lincoln, I passed through hardship after hardship, ...
— Biography of a Slave - Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson • Charles Thompson


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