Meaning of curse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
2. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane
3. A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
4. To utter curses; swear.
5. A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone
6. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
7. having the misfortune to have. She's cursed with a troublesome mother-in-law. bevloek مَلعونة، مُصابة بسوء الحَظ проклет, че amaldiçoado postižený (čím) geschlagen mit forbandet med καταραμένοςmaldito nuheldud رنج بردن از joutua kärsimään jstk affligé מְקוּלָל किसी के कारण बड़े कष्ट kažnjen -vel verte meg az Isten sial vera þjakaður af, sitja uppi með afflitto ～に苦しむ (못된 설질 때위)를 가지고 있다 pasmerktas turėti nosodīts; nelaimes piemeklēts terkena sumpahan gestraft met plaget med obarczony, obciążony...
8. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment
9. A vulgar epithet.
10. An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.
11. A vulgar epithet
12. A source or cause of evil; a scourge: "Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race" (William Ewart Gladstone).
13. A woman's menses.
    dated, derogatory, slang, usually, with-definite-article
14. A woman's menses
15. A profane word or phrase; a swearword.
16. Ecclesiastical A censure, ban, or anathema.
    Ecclesiastical
17. Offensive Menstruation. Used with the.
    Offensive
18. To invoke evil or misfortune upon; damn.
19. To swear at: cursed the car because it wouldn't start.
20. To bring evil upon; afflict: was cursed with crippling arthritis.

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Examples

“If ye will not heare, and if yee will not lay it to heart, to giue glory vnto my name, saith the Lord of hostes; I will euen send a curse vpon you, and will curse your blessings: yea, I haue cursed them already, because yee doe not lay it to heart.”

“Oh Portius, is there not some choſen Curſe, Some hidden Thunder in the Stores of Heav’n, Red with uncommon Wrath, to blaſt the Man Who owes his Greatneſs to his Country’s Ruin?”

““The farm's had a lot of bad luck, you see. Dad thinks there is a curse on the place.” “Most like. Most like,” said Catweazle, gobbling the banana.”

“The common curſe of mankinde, Folly and Ignorance[…]”

“Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.”

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