curse (n.)
- abuse
- adversity
- affliction
- aggravation
- anathema
- annoyance
- bane
- blasphemy
- blast
- blight
- bugbear
- bummer
- burden
- calamity
- care
- catamenia
- charm
- commination
- cross
- cuss
- damage
- damn
- damnation
- darn
- death
- defile
- denunciation
- destruction
- difficulty
- disadvantage
- disease
- distress
- doom
- downer
- dysphemism
- enchantment
- encumbrance
- epithet
- evil
- execration
- exorcism
- expletive
- flowers
- gall
- glamour
- grievance
- handicap
- hardship
- harm
- hex
- hoodoo
- hurt
- imprecation
- infliction
- irritation
- jinx
- load
- malediction
- menace
- menses
- menstruation
- misfortune
- nemesis
- oath
- objurgation
- obscenity
- oppression
- outrage
- period
- pest
- pestilence
- plague
- plight
- poison
- predicament
- prejudice
- pressure
- profanation
- profanity
- rigor
- sacrilege
- saddle
- savage
- scathe
- scourge
- sorrow
- spell
- stress
- swear
- swearword
- taint
- thorn
- torment
- torture
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- vexation
- vicissitude
- visitation
- voodoo
- weight
- weird
- whammy
- woe
- wound
- wrong
curse (v.)
- abuse
- accurse
- afflict
- aggrieve
- anathematize
- befoul
- bewitch
- blaspheme
- blast
- blight
- burden
- care
- charm
- condemn
- confound
- corrupt
- cross
- crucify
- cuss
- damage
- damn
- darn
- death
- defile
- denounce
- deprave
- despoil
- destroy
- disadvantage
- distress
- doom
- envenom
- evil
- excommunicate
- execrate
- gall
- glamour
- handicap
- harass
- harm
- hex
- hoodoo
- hurt
- impair
- imprecate
- infect
- injure
- jinx
- load
- maltreat
- menace
- mistreat
- molest
- objurgate
- outrage
- persecute
- plague
- plight
- poison
- pollute
- prejudice
- pressure
- saddle
- savage
- scourge
- sorrow
- spell
- stress
- swear
- taint
- threaten
- torment
- torture
- trouble
- vilify
- violate
- voodoo
- weight
- wound
- wrong
Curse all his virtues! they 've undone his country.
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid's curse:
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!
Dweller in yon dungeon dark,
Hangman of creation, mark!
Who in widow weeds appears,
Laden with unhonoured years,
Noosing with care a bursting purse,
Baited with many a deadly curse?
Curse his better angel from his side,
And fall to reprobation.
The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance.
O curse of marriage,
That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,
Than keep a corner in the thing I love
For others' uses.
'T is the curse of service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to the first.
Curse on all laws but those which love has made!
Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,
A brother's murder.
