Curse

Noun

 * 1) A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
 * 2) A vulgar epithet.
 * 3)  A woman's monthly period.

Verb

 * 1)  To place a curse upon (a person or object).
 * 2)  To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet at someone or something.
 * 3)  To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.

Synonyms

 * swear

Adjectives for Curse
sobbing; vile; futile; snarling; unintelligible; fervent; dazzling; exasperated; muttered; bitter; great; hot; muffled; steamy; primal; intolerable; irritable; cunning; deep; valiant; haunting; sterile; well-hurled; dread; inevitable; long-forgotten; un utterable; sardonic; primeval; murmuring blaspheming; shrieking; canceled; smother ed; latent; fiendish; furious; primordial; abiding.

Verbs
annul—; bait with—; blast—at; breathe—; bring—upon; cast—; croak—; dread—; endow with—; growl—; heap— upon; hurl—at; mutter—; pronounce—; redeem from—; remove—; shake off—; smite with —; speak—; stifle—; swear—; taunt with —; voice—; wish—; woo—; —bodes ill for; —falls upon; — pour out; —prevails; —stings.

Adverbs for Curse
endlessly; furiously; wrathfully; persistently; belligerently; bitterly; jovially; vulgarly; coarsely; blasphemously; unintelligibly; fervently; exasperatedly; hotly; intolerably; irritably; fiendishly.

Thesaurus
Jonah, abuse, accurse, adverse circumstances, adversity, afflict, affliction, aggravation, aggrieve, anathema, anathematize, annoyance, bad influence, bad language, bane, befoul, bewitch, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, blaspheme, blasphemy, blast, blight, bugbear, bummer, burden, burden of care, calamity, cankerworm of care, cantrip, care, catamenia, catamenial discharge, charm, commination, condemn, confound, corrupt, courses, cross, crown of thorns, crucify, crushing burden, curse and swear, cuss, cuss word, damage, damn, damnation, damning, darn, death, defile, denounce, denunciation, deprave, despoil, destroy, destruction, difficulties, difficulty, dirty name, dirty word, disadvantage, disease, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, downer, dysphemism, dysphemize, enchantment, encumbrance, envenom, epithet, evil, evil eye, evil genius, evil star, excommunicate, execrate, execration, exorcism, expletive, flowers, foul invective, fulminate against, gall, gall and wormwood, get into trouble, glamour, grievance, handicap, harass, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, harm, hex, hoodoo, hurt, ill wind, impair, imprecate, imprecation, infect, infliction, injure, irritation, jinx, load, magic spell, malediction, malevolent influence, malocchio, maltreat, menace, menses, menstrual discharge, menstruation, misfortune, mistreat, molest, monthlies, naughty word, nemesis, no-no, oath, objurgate, objurgation, obscenity, open wound, oppression, outrage, pack of troubles, peck of troubles, period, periods, persecute, pest, pestilence, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, plight, poison, pollute, predicament, prejudice, pressure, profanation, profane oath, profanity, rigor, running sore, sacrilege, saddle, savage, scathe, scatologize, scourge, sea of troubles, sorrow, spell, stress, stress of life, swear, swear at, swearword, taint, talk dirty, that time, the curse, thorn, threaten, throw a whammy, thunder against, torment, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, vale of tears, vexation, vicissitude, vilify, violate, visitation, voodoo, wanga, waters of bitterness, weigh down, weight, weird, whammy, woe, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

Etymology
From, from Late curs:, of unknown origin.

Noun

 * Albanian: mallkimi
 * Arabic: لعنة
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian: kletva, prokletstvo
 * Breton: mallozh
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: maledicció
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 詛咒, 诅咒
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:, maleficio
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 저주 (咀呪)


 * Kurdish: lanet, nalet ,
 * Latvian: lāsts
 * Lithuanian: prakeikimas, prakeiksmas
 * Nahuatl: uexcaitoa
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: клетва, проклетство
 * Latin: kletva, prokletstvo
 * Sicilian: malanova
 * Slovene: kletev, prekletstvo
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian: ezeru
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: förbannelse
 * Tagalog: sumpa
 * Tamil: சாபம் (SAbam)
 * Telugu: శాపం (SaapaM)
 * Welsh: melltith
 * Welsh: melltith


 * Armenian: հայհոյանք
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish: lanet, nalet
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: ,


 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: псовка
 * Latin: psovka
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తిట్టు (tiTTu)
 * Welsh: rheg

Derived terms

 * curse of Scotland

Verb

 * Arabic: لعن
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:, ,
 * Bulgarian: проклинам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 詛咒, 诅咒
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: vervloeken
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: fluchen (engl. swear), verfluchen
 * Hebrew: קילל
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: bölva
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 呪う
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old Irish:
 * Polish: przekląć,   przeklinać
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, проклясть
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: проклети, уклети, клети
 * Latin: prokleti, ukleti, kleti
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: శపించు (Sapimchu)
 * Welsh: melltithio


 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian: псувам
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: קילל
 * Icelandic: bölva
 * Italian:


 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ругать, обругать
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: псовати, опсовати
 * Latin: psovati, opsovati
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: rhegi


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ругая
 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic: blóta
 * Polish:,   zakląć


 * Russian: ругаться
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: rhegi

Antonyms

 * bless

Anagrams

 * cruse
 * cures
 * sucre, Sucre

Noun
curse