verb
- Utter obscenities or profanities.
- usage: "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
- Heap obscenities upon.
- usage: "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"
- synonyms: curse
- Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon.
- usage: "The bad witch cursed the child"
- synonyms: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict
- Exclude from a church or a religious community.
- usage: "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
- synonyms: excommunicate, unchurch, curse
adjective
- Deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier.
- usage: "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning"
- synonyms: curst
- In danger of the eternal punishment of Hell.
- usage: "poor damned souls"
- synonyms: damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved
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