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
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
It is better to light a candle than 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
I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Jimi Hendrix
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
Henry Miller
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Paulo Coelho
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H. L. Mencken
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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