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curse

(kûrs)

a. An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.

b. Evil or misfortune viewed as resulting from such an appeal: believed that the amulet would ward off curses.

2. A source or cause of evil; a scourge: "Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race" (William Ewart Gladstone).

3. A profane word or phrase; a swearword.

4. Ecclesiastical A censure, ban, or anathema.

5. Offensive Menstruation. Used with the.

v. cursed or curst (kûrst), curs·ing, curs·es

v. tr.

1. To invoke evil or misfortune upon; damn.

2. To swear at: cursed the car because it wouldn't start.

3. To bring evil upon; afflict: was cursed with crippling arthritis.

4. Ecclesiastical To put under a ban or anathema; excommunicate.

v. intr.

To utter curses; swear.

[Middle English, from Old English curs, probably from Medieval Latin cursus, daily set of liturgical prayers, set of imprecations read in church four times in the year and imposing automatic excommunication for certain sins, from Latin, course; see course.]

curs′er n.

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