2 entries found for curse.
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Function: noun
Text: 1 a prayer that harm will come to someone <the victim's curse that the man who robbed her never receive any pleasure from her money>
Synonyms anathema, execration, imprecation, malediction
Related Words censure, condemnation, damnation, denunciation; hex, spell
Near Antonyms citation, commendation, endorsement
Antonyms benediction, benison, blessing
2 a disrespectful or indecent word or expression <started muttering curses after hitting his thumb with the hammer> -- see SWEARWORD