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curse 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/kərs/,
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curses, plural;
  1. Invoke or use a curse against
    • - it often seemed as if the family had been cursed
  2. Be afflicted with
    • - many owners have been cursed with a series of bankruptcies
  3. Utter offensive words in anger or annoyance
    • - drivers were cursing and sounding their horns
  4. Address with such words
    • - I cursed myself for my carelessness
Noun
  1. A solemn utterance intended to invoke a supernatural power to inflict harm or punishment on someone or something
    • - she'd put a curse on him
  2. A cause of harm or misery
    • - impatience is the curse of our day and age
  3. Menstruation

  4. An offensive word or phrase used to express anger or annoyance
    • - his mouth was spitting vile oaths and curses
  1. profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted"
  2. utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
  3. execration: an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
  4. heap obscenities upon; "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"
  5. hex: an evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"
  6. wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"
  7. 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. ...
  8. Curse is an album by Alien Sex Fiend, released in October, 1990 on Anagram.
  9. The Curse is a fictional villain in the comic book, Spawn. The Curse in the book is a billionaire and a religious zealot who seeks a place in Heaven and knows far more about the war between Heaven and Hell than most on Earth. The Curse closely resembles a cyborg version of Doctor Doom. ...
  10. Curse (born Michael S. Kurth, 6 September 1978) is a German hip hop artist from Minden.
  11. Curse is a 1983 album by The Legendary Pink Dots.
  12. The Curse is a 1987 horror film adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space directed by David Keith.
  13. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane; A vulgar epithet; A woman's monthly period; To place a curse upon (a person or object); To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet at someone or something; To use offensive or morally inappropriate language
  14. (cursed) Something that has some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse
  15. (Cursed) is an item property which denotes that an item is one which cannot be insured and will automatically fall to a player's corpse upon death. Cursed items were introduced with Publish 16 and placed on Power and Stat Scrolls. ...
  16. (CURSES) Implementation of Unix CURSES package. Added to Multics in the mid 80s.
  17. (Cursing) In its popular acceptation
  18. (Cursing) language that negatively invokes an afterlife
  19. To speak a wish of evil against someone or call down forces to hurt someone.
  20. Purposely directing negative energy at someone. Wiccans do not do this, as it goes against the rules of three.
  21. An object designed to bring bad luck, divine wrath, disease etc upon the bearer or target of the curse.
  22. Denounced by God against the serpent (Gen 3:14), and against Cain (Gen 4:11). These divine maledictions carried their effect with them. Prophetical curses were sometimes pronounced by holy men (Gen 9:25; Gen 49:7; Deu 27:15; Jos 6:26). ...
  23. An undeserved curse has no effect, but may fall back upon the head of him who utters it (comp. Gen. xii. 3). (Sometimes Jews who feel that they are being cursed unjustly express the hope that "zol es ois gehm of sein kopf, wos er wünscht mir" [may all the evil he wishes me turn upon him] [Russia].)
  24. (Gr. anathema) To cut off, separate; the opposite of blessing. A divine curse is God's judgment. Christ delivers believers from the curse caused by their inability to live by the law of God (see Gen. 3:14-19; 9:25; Mark 11:21; Gal. 3:10-14).
  25. A calling on a god or spirit to visit trouble or evil upon a person.