Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: curse
IPA transcription: [k'ɝs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: curse, curse_word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss
    Meaning: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted"
  • Synonyms: execration, condemnation, curse
    Meaning: an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
  • Synonyms: hex, jinx, curse, whammy
    Meaning: an evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate
    Meaning: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
  • Synonyms: curse
    Meaning: heap obscenities upon; "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"
  • Synonyms: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict
    Meaning: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"
Usage examples
  • Curse everybody!
  • Curse it, curse it, curse those five years!"
  • I get up and walk about the room and curse....
  • What curse shall I call down On hearts so dull?
  • Stricken with terror, Gilgamesh uttered a curse.
  • "I wish she was dead! Curse her and her beauty!"
  • He began to curse and threaten, but I cut him short.
  • Several African tribes spit to make compacts, declare friendship, and to curse.
  • Last night a speaker said: "The curse of this country is not a lack of education.
  • So to him the nymph thereafter made her death a curse, to him and to his children.