1. Utter obscenities or profanities
   "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street";
   - cuss [informal], blaspheme, swear, imprecate, eff [Brit, informal], eff and blind [Brit]
    
2. Heap obscenities upon
   "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"
    
3. Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
   "The bad witch cursed the child";
   - beshrew [archaic], damn, bedamn [archaic], anathemize, anathemise [Brit], imprecate, maledict [archaic], dang [N. Amer, informal], doggone [N. Amer, informal]
    
4. Exclude from a church or a religious community
   "The priest cursed the heretic";
   - excommunicate, unchurch

1. An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on some individual or group
   "The witch's curse struck fear into the villagers";
   - execration, condemnation
    
2. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
   "curses were deleted"; "He stubbed his toe and let out a curse word";
   - curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss [informal], cussword [N. Amer, informal]
    
3. An evil spell
   "a witch put a curse on his whole family";
   - hex, jinx, whammy, mozz [Austral, informal]
    
4. Something causing misery or death
   "the curse of my life";
   - bane, scourge, nemesis
    
5. A severe affliction
   "The drought was a curse upon the land";
   - torment

Derived forms: cursed, cursing, curses

Type of: abuse, affliction, arouse, blackguard, bring up, call down, call forth, charm, clapperclaw [archaic], conjure, conjure up, denouncement, denunciation, evoke, exclude, express, give tongue to, invoke, keep out, magic spell, magical spell, profanity, raise, shout, shut, shut out, spell, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

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