Definition of Curse

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Definition of Curse

Curse

To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.

An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.

Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.

The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.

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Curse Quotations

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Winston Churchill

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Jimi Hendrix

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Charles Spurgeon

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
Andrew Carnegie

Curse Translations

curse in Danish is bande
curse in Dutch is ketteren, godlasteren, vloeken
curse in Finnish is herjata
curse in German is Fluch
curse in Italian is maledire
curse in Latin is pestis pestis, vomica
curse in Norwegian is forbanne, forbannelse

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