Word Finder - curse

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A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.

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A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.

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

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A vulgar epithet.

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(usually with "the") A woman's menses.

She didn't look back, but his muffled curse chased after her.

And yet the curse he'd feared was broken!

Her curse was lost as she was sucked into the shadow world.

His face mottled with anger, he released her with a curse and paced.

A curse on the lot of them, especially the state of Texas where the roads never end.

She hates it and will surely put a curse on you.

She muttered a curse, and the cool façade slipped.

He watched her drop it, the sound of metal on stone preceding her curse by a second.

Before his death, he admitted he didn't know what the curse was, only that none in our line must draw the curse.

She slammed the door to the bathing chamber, flinching at the sounds of a loud curse and the clatter of a table smashing into the stone wall.

He muttered a curse and flung his door open.

I cannot speak, but I would tell him the evil I've done for the beast, and then ask him if he thought the curse was worth a wall we might have built ourselves!

He's going to lift the curse of sin.

Fallen man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in the sweat of our brows, but because our moral nature is such that we cannot be both idle and at ease.

Jonny mumbled a curse and straightened.

Am I to thank him or curse him?

She opened it and muttered a curse.

As no one could curse Jesus except under the influence of a devilish afflatus, so none could say "Jesus is Lord" except he was inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Certain sacrifices of animals he explains as intended to transfer a conditional curse.

He'd thought the Guardians' loss of magic a curse until he started thinking about how the Others couldn't sense a Guardian that had no magic.

It was her curse with men, and after five years of not dating and the enormous mission of stealing from a stranger, it was only getting worse.

Sometimes one came near to my window, attracted by my light, barked a vulpine curse at me, and then retreated.

She started her quest in Soul Calibur 2 and continued in Soul Calibur 3, fighting alongside her sister in order to break the Soul Edge curse.

The show features Gordon Ramsay, an exceptional chef with a fiery temper and penchant for curse words, as he searches for new head chefs for this restaurants.

But then a gypsy curse gave him a heavy burden.

Her mouth dropped open, and Talon murmured a curse.

There are some who say a female Warlord will bring a curse upon us, but we don't believe this, he added.

This book will do what you cannot and break our curse.

She'd always resented it, suspecting it held the information she needed to defeat the curse.

The "Tuscan name" is denounced in the comprehensive curse of Table VI.

Then, yielding to his wife's entreaties, he sallied forth and defeated the enemy, but was never seen again, having been carried off by the Erinyes, who had heard his mother's curse (or he was slain by Apollo in battle).

The curse or pollution thus incurred was frequently in later years raked up for political reasons; the Spartans even demanded that Pericles should be expelled as accursed at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war.

The Roman exsecratio and diris devotio was a solemn pronouncement of a religious curse by priests, intended to call down the divine wrath upon enemies, and to devote them to destruction by powers human and divine.

The curse of Ernulphus or Arnulphus of Rochester (c. r loo), often quoted by students of English literature, is a very fair specimen of that class of composition.

According to this the patriarchs and Adam and Eve also appear at the death-bed, to praise their daughter, through whom they had been rescued from the curse of God; a Jew who touches the body loses both his hands, which are restored to him by the Apostles; and the body lies three days in the grave without corruption before it is taken up into heaven.

Balak, king of Moab, became alarmed, and sent for Balaam to curse Israel; Balaam came after some hesitation, but when he sought to curse Israel Yahweh compelled him to bless them.

Balak, king of Moab, alarmed at the Israelite conquests, sends elders of Moab and Midian to Balaam, son of Beor, to the land of Ammon, to induce him to come and curse Israel.

Balak, king of Moab, alarmed at the conquests of Israel, sends the princes of Moab to Balaam at Pethor on the Euphrates, that he may come and curse Israel.

She thereupon invoked a curse upon her brother, who slew her on the spot.

Returning from Hungary the elector placed himself at the head of the princes who were seeking to check the career of his former ally, Albert Alcibiades, whose depredations were making him a curse to Germany.

The attempts made by her and her husband to avert this curse simply led to its accomplishment.

An Arab's curse is escaped by falling flat on the face, for it then shoots over the head; and recently the following case was referred from French Canada before the judicial committee of the privy council.

Fortunately the phosphorus, turned from a curse into a blessing, develops by its oxidation the needed temperature, though the fact that this requires at least i.

Time after- time they followed him to Italy, enduring serious losses and hardships in order that he might enforce claims which were of no advantage to them, and which, previously, had been a curse to their nation.

These crimes necessitate further acts of vengeance, and the curse is thus transmitted from generation to generation.

Involved in secular feuds with Douglas, Livingstone and the earl of Crawford, Kennedy destroyed Crawford with a spiritual weapon, his Curse (23rd of January 1445-1446).

A stipulation was included in the treaty to the effect that Persians were not to curse any longer the first three caliphs, a sort of privilege previously enjoyed by Shiites as part and parcel of their religious faith.

Since no one could keep this law, the whole human race fell under the curse, temporal and eternal, of the Demiurge.

Rhyn's curse made Gabriel turn.

Rhyn smiled faintly, admiring the woman before him.  She was foolishly stubborn and lippy – and he loved that about her.  She was the first creature ever to see beyond his half-demon curse.