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Adjective: cursed kurst or kur-sid- Deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
"cursed with four daughters"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning"; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; - curst - (Christianity) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
"poor cursed souls"; - damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved Verb: curse kurs- 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] - Heap obscenities upon
"The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger" - Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
"The bad witch cursed the child"; - beshrew [archaic], damn, bedamn [archaic], anathemize, anathemise [Brit], imprecate, maledict [archaic], doggone [N. Amer, informal], dang [N. Amer, informal] - Exclude from a church or a religious community
"The gay priest was cursed when he married his partner"; - excommunicate, unchurch
See also: accursed, accurst, blame [N. Amer], blamed, blasted, blessed, cursed with, damn, damnable, damned, darned, dashed [Brit, informal], deuced, doggone [N. Amer, informal], execrable, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal, lost, maledict [archaic], stuck with Type of: abuse, arouse, blackguard, bring up, call down, call forth, clapperclaw [archaic], conjure, conjure up, evoke, exclude, express, give tongue to, invoke, keep out, put forward, raise, shout, shut, shut out, stir, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize Encyclopedia: Cursed, Unshaven and Misbehavin': Live Infinity Curse, Inc |