Yahoo India Web Search

Search results

  1. People also ask

  2. to be very angry with someone or with yourself, and often to say or think very impolite things about them: curse someone/yourself for something/doing something She was cursing her brother for losing her keys. I cursed myself for not realizing sooner what was going on. You'll curse yourself when you find out how easily you could have avoided this.

  3. curse in British English. (kɜːs ) noun. 1. a profane or obscene expression of anger, disgust, surprise, etc; oath. 2. an appeal to a supernatural power for harm to come to a specific person, group, etc. 3. harm resulting from an appeal to a supernatural power.

  4. the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc. Synonyms: malediction, fulmination, execration, imprecation. Antonyms: benediction, blessing. a formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another. the act of reciting such a formula.

  5. The meaning of CURSE is a prayer or invocation for harm or injury to come upon one : imprecation. How to use curse in a sentence.

  6. to express anger towards someone or something: He cursed himself for not telling David about it earlier. be cursed by/with sth. to have something that causes problems over a long period of time: I am cursed with an interfering family. (Definition of curse from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of curse.

  7. type of: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic. noun. profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger. synonyms: curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword.

  8. [countable] a word or phrase that has a magic power to make something bad happen. The family thought that they were under a curse. The witch is supposed to have put a curse on the house. compare hex. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. [countable] something that causes harm or evil. the curse of drug addiction. Noise is a curse of modern city life.