Curse

English Meaning

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

1. An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.
2. The evil or misfortune that comes in or as if in response to such an appeal: bewailed the curse of ill health.
3. One that is accursed.
4. A source or cause of evil; a scourge: "Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race” ( William Ewart Gladstone).
5. A profane word or phrase; a swearword.
6. Ecclesiastical A censure, ban, or anathema.
7. Slang Menstruation. Used with the.
8. To invoke evil or misfortune upon; damn.
9. To swear at.
10. To bring evil upon; afflict: was cursed with crippling arthritis.
11. Ecclesiastical To put under a ban or an anathema; excommunicate.
12. To utter curses; swear.