1 (also cuss) [C] a rude or offensive word or phrase that some people use when they are very angry:
He muttered a curse at the other driver.
2 [C] a word or phrase that has a magic power to make sth bad happen:
The family thought that they were under a curse.
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3 [C] something that causes harm or evil:
the curse of drug addiction * Noise is a curse of modern city life.
4 (the curse) [sing.] (old-fashioned, informal) MENSTRUATION
Part of speech: verb
1 [V] to swear:
He hit his head as he stood up and cursed loudly.
2 [VN] ~ (sb/sth) (for sth) to say rude things to sb or think rude things about sb/sth:
She cursed her bad luck. * He cursed himself for his stupidity.
3 [VN] to use a magic word or phrase against sb in order to harm them:
Legend has it that the whole village had been cursed by a witch.
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PHRASALVERBS
be cursed with sth to continuously suffer from or be affected by sth bad:
She seems cursed with bad luck.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for curse is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is curse a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, curse is tagged as noun.
Does curse appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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