verb

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To place a curse upon (a person or object).

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To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

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To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.

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To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.

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To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

Examples of cursing in a Sentence

Kiera was cursing and shouting.

Later, as she looked down at his sleeping form, she was silently cursing the doctor because his diagnosis was correct, but for the wrong partner.

He chose to overlook the idea of his nishani cursing like a man at battle.

She turned and all but fled the rooftop, cursing herself for her weakness and the tears in her eyes.

Near it is Llaneilian village, famous for its "cursing well" (St Eilian's, perhaps Aelianus').

Thereupon, instead of cursing the Israelites, Balaam blessed them.

She returned to her room to clean herself up, cursing peanut butter for ruining her appetite as she went.

Deidre gritted her teeth, silently cursing everyone under the sun for not keeping better track of the souls.

He slapped the wall of his cell, cursing Death again for not freeing him.

He gritted his teeth to keep it contained, silently cursing both the angel and Kris for not just letting him die-dead, like he deserved.

On her father's death, she swore to die without cursing another with the demon.

Failing to quell the outbreak, Theseus in despair sent his children to Euboea, and after solemnly cursing the Athenians sailed away to the island of Scyrus, where he had ancestral estates.

Sounds of cursing and wailing were in his ears.

The clerk was holding an extinguisher, shaking and cursing it.

He ran as fast as he could through the unfriendly forest, cursing Death for stripping his power.

He touched her and withdrew immediately, cursing.

Cursing, he went to the wall overlooking the meadow and spotted Vara atop his horse, awaiting his signal at the edge of the forest.

The above are good senses of the word, but it is also used in the sense of devoting things and persons to destruction; and in this sense it is tantamount to cursing.

Cursing is, equally with consecration, a taboo imposed on a thing or person.

This is known as the Commination service, its distinctive element being the solemn reading of "the general sentences of God's cursing against sinners, gathered out of the seven and twentieth chapter of Deuteronomy, and other places of Scripture."

For these misgovernances the hearts of the people were turned from them that had the land in lule, and their blessing was turned to cursing.

Silently cursing Oracles, he Transported back to the mountainside.

She staggered up, cursing the drugs and Jake for her inability to balance, and slammed into several pieces of furniture as the monsters chased her.

She was still silently cursing herself for asking him why he needed to get to the underworld and him for answering honestly.

A knock kept him from cursing the book and Fate out loud.

She gritted her teeth, unwilling to leave the sanctuary of his arms and cursing herself for her weakness.

He planted his hands on his hips and looked upward, cursing the gods in silence.

Internally, she was cursing the vampire.

So he went off cursing, like the foul-mouthed blackguard that he was, and swearing that he would have her yet.

I felt strangely helpless and vulnerable as the first tinkling chunks whizzed by, Es cursing increasingly loudly from his precarious perch high above.

I had no help from latex2html, which refused to install under Windows even after much prodding and cursing.

Many have had graffiti scrawled on nearby walls, cursing alleged Armenian support of the PKK.

Cursing Missy Midriff, I rushed home and changed into a smart, crisp suit with matching telephone voice.

I sat there under the trees sipping the last dregs of Bollinger, cursing myself for not having put a tenner on.

Great Achilles Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance.

The children masquerade, and their parents are enjoined to drink wine until they cannot distinguish between blessing Mordecai and cursing Haman.

Thirty thousand devils!... the convoy guards began cursing and the French soldiers, with fresh virulence, drove away with their swords the crowd of prisoners who were gazing at the dead man.

Cursing here, cursing there, cursing everywhere.

I didn't need to hear the players cursing constantly or wondering which cheerleader might get pregnant.

Do they curse more or have they started cursing if they've never cursed before?

Dialog in the game can be graphic at times with the Prince cursing every now and then, but the voices fit the characters.

If a movie has a nine in profanity and a one in sex and nudity, you can expect that the film will contain a great deal of cursing, but little or no content that involves sex or nudity.

Between a more restricted social language (norms in our society were unacceptable in theirs, like cursing), different gestures and coloring, the movies certainly have a different feel.

Another point some readers have taken issue with is the abundance of cursing throughout the book.

He'd hitchhiked between towns and walked cross-country, admiring the Irish landscape as he went and cursing the cold, incessant rain of late autumn.

Damian didn't respond, silently cursing the being.

Katie locked herself in the bathroom, cursing Ully for the skunk perfume that clearly didn.t work.

Victor gathered up Cassandra and hurried to the door cursing, then yelled back, "This is not over!"

They looked at her, and she suspected they were silently cursing the defenseless civilian.

Even the thunder of the underworld sounded weird.  Katie glanced towards the sky, silently cursing the rain.  She made her way over a fallen log and waited for Deidre before continuing.

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