Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
to place a curse upon:
to use offensive language:
Русский
By meaning 4
to place a curse upon:
to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon:
to utter a vulgar curse:
to use offensive language:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to place a curse upon:
to use offensive language:

Examples

236 sentences

  1. Why are you cursing?

    Чому ти лаєшся? — deniko

    deWarum fluchst du? — mayabe

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  2. Tom cursed himself for his carelessness.

    ruТом проклял себя за беспечность. — odexed

    deTom verfluchte sich für seine Nachlässigkeit. — pullnosemans

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  3. She cursed him for causing the accident.

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Meaning

5 senses

  1. (transitive)To place a curse upon (a person or object).

    fluchen, verfluchen, verdammen

    проклина́тьproklinátʹ, прокля́стьprokljástʹ, клястьkljastʹ

    проклина́тиproklynáty, прокля́стиprokljásty, кля́стиkljásty

  2. (intransitive)To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.

    schimpfen, fluchen

    руга́тьсяrugátʹsja, матери́тьсяmaterítʹsja, скверносло́витьskvernoslóvitʹ

    ла́ятисяlájatysja, матюка́тисяmatjukátysja

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

    fluchen, verfluchen

    наводи́ть по́рчуnavodítʹ pórču

    wish harm upon; invoke evil upon

More meanings 2

  1. (transitive)To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.

    fluchen

    руга́тьrugátʹ, обруга́тьobrugátʹ, матери́тьmaterítʹ

  2. 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.

Origin

From Middle English cursen, corsen, coursen, from Old English corsian, cursian (“to curse”

From Middle English cursen, corsen, coursen, from Old English corsian, cursian (“to curse”), from the noun (see above).

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Forms

curses, cursing, cursed, cursed

regular

Base formcurse · to curse
3rd person singularcurses
Present participlecursing
Past simplecursed
Past participlecursed

Tenses

curse · cursed · will curse · have cursed

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycurse
he, she, itcurses

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cursed
he, she, ithas cursed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill curse

Past simpleLesson

all personscursed

Synonyms

30 synonyms
To place a curse upon:damnB2bewitchensorcellmaleficiate
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury…:comminateexecrateimprecate
To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet:swearB1blasphemecurse like a pagancurse like a troopercurse like a sailorcusseff and blindeff and jeffswear like a cutterswear like a paganswear like a trooperswear like a sailorturn the air bluevilify
To bring great evil upon:afflictshaftwreak
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
To place a curse upon:blessB1

Word family

8 related words
Derivedaccursebecursecursablecurseecurserforcurseoutcurseuncurse

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
currentlyB1curriculumB1curryA2cursedcursescursive

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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