- curse: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"
- A curse (also called execration) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to some other entity—one or more persons, a place, or an object. ...
- To invoke or wish evil upon; to curse; A mildly imprecatory or merely expletive introductory exclamation, in the form of the imperative
- to curse, usually mildly