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curse

/kurs/US // kɜrs //UK // (kɜːs) //

诅咒,咒语,咒骂,咒诅

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
    • : a formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another.
    • : the act of reciting such a formula.
    • : a profane oath; curse word.
    • : an evil that has been invoked upon one.
    • : the cause of evil, misfortune, or trouble.
    • : something accursed.
    • : Informal.Usually the curse . the menstrual period; menstruation.
    • : an ecclesiastical censure or anathema.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cursed or curst, curs·ing.

    • : to wish or invoke evil, calamity, injury, or destruction upon.
    • : to swear at.
    • : to blaspheme.
    • : to afflict with great evil.
    • : to excommunicate.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cursed or curst, curs·ing.

    • : to utter curses; swear profanely.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounhateful, swearing remark
Forms: cursed, curses, cursing

Examples

  • If there really was a curse, he should have been one of its first victims.

  • The Jazz will use wings and forwards to set ball screens and confuse defenders, but the lion’s share of Mitchell’s attack involves a partnership with Gobert that’s both a gift and a curse.

  • Your already-simmering emotions leap into overdrive, and you lay on the horn and shout curses no one can hear.

  • With their curse lifted, the Red Sox just kept winning over the next decade and a half.

  • These mummies come complete with mazes and hieroglyphs and maybe a curse or two.

  • A curse-filled half hour that saw my blood boil as my filing deadline ticked further into the past.

  • However, these “potty-mouthed princesses” curse like proverbial sailors to prove a point.

  • His memory is encyclopedic--a curse for a man who feels persecuted.

  • For much of our political history, the “third term” curse was non-existent.

  • As it is, whatever worries will keep the next Democratic nominee up at night, that “third term curse” should not be one of them.

  • Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.

  • A child, under exactly similar circumstances as far as its knowledge goes, cannot very well curse God and die.

  • He was given no reply save a muttered curse, a command to hold his tongue, and an angry tug at his tied arms.

  • And then he walked about the room, reflecting on the curse of his life—his besetting sin—irresolution.

  • The Jesuit expatiated on the curse of heaven, which now manifested itself on the head of the Duke in every relation of his life.