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(adj)
accursed, cursed
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(v)
(transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
(n)
An act or instance of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; an imprecation; an expression of utter detestation.
(transitive, archaic) To invoke or wish evil upon; to curse.
(transitive, somewhat vulgar) To damn or curse roundly or with iteration and emphasis; damn all over.
A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.
A word that is a vulgarity.
(linguistics) The act of swearing, or making an oath.
(chiefly US, colloquial) To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
(intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
Alternative spelling of swear word. [A word considered obscene and vulgar or offensive.]
(countable) A cause of misery or ruin.
(sometimes vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
To declare to be anathema; to curse and reject.
The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong.
(figurative) A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
An enemy, especially an archenemy.
(transitive) To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
An evil spell or curse.
A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
(ambitransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
A curse.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
(vulgar, sometimes offensive) Used as an intensifier.
(adv)
(mildly vulgar) Very.
(transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
(transitive) To insult intentionally, especially openly.
The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
A dire or unfortunate situation.
A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
(uncountable) Bad luck.
a serious or devastating setback
(by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming.
The distress that results from some disaster.
The feeling of not being happy.
To find fault (with something).
A heavy load.
(often in the plural) The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
(ambitransitive) To rebuke angrily.
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
In, at or near what location.
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
(often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
(figurative) Something that impedes development or growth, or spoils any other aspect of life.
(uncountable) Molecular nitrogen (N₂), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature.
(religion) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
(countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
The act of denouncing; an accusation made in public
(obsolete) A curse, a malediction.
(historical) A stone tablet inscribed with a curse, as used in parts of the ancient Mediterranean to target someone with maleficent magic.
(obsolete) A witching; a bewitchment.
(obsolete) Corrosive.
(archaic) An evil deed; evilness; enchantment or sorcery.
(obsolete, geometry) intersection
(British, Ireland) Bad luck, failure, or evil befalling.
Obsolete form of cursedness. [The state or quality of being cursed.]
(obsolete, regional) hindrance
Alternative form of forbode. [(archaic) A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.]
Alternative form of forebode. [To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).]
(uncountable) The act of deprecating.
Synonym of bidding.
(obsolete, rare) injury
(archaic) The act of forbidding something.
A sense of evil to come.
(obsolete) A menace or threat.
(obsolete) misfortune
(now archaic) Vengeance (in the phrases in a wanion, with a wanion, “with a vengeance”).
(obsolete) A foreboding; an omen.
(often plural) A detrimental or harmful effect.
Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
Obsolete form of disadvantage. [A weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback.]
(obsolete) harm, injury, or detriment
(obsolete) Synonym of malediction.
(obsolete) Ugliness or deformity.
The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.
An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
(idiomatic, dated, mildly offensive) A curse causing loss of will power or persistent bad luck.
(obsolete) Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain.
Hell.