curse

curse is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. intransitive verb. To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
4. transitive verb. An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
5. transitive verb. Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
6. transitive verb. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
7. noun. profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger

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   Synonyms: cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword

8. noun. an evil spell

   "a witch put a curse on his whole family"

   "he put the whammy on me"

   Synonyms: hex, jinx, whammy

9. noun. an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

   Synonyms: condemnation, execration

10. noun. a severe affliction

    Synonyms: torment

11. noun. something causing misery or death

    "the bane of my life"

    Synonyms: bane, nemesis, scourge

12. verb. utter obscenities or profanities

    "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"

    Synonyms: blaspheme, cuss, imprecate, swear

13. verb. wish harm upon; invoke evil upon

    "The bad witch cursed the child"

    Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict

14. verb. heap obscenities upon

    "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"

15. verb. exclude from a church or a religious community

    "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"

    Synonyms: excommunicate, unchurch

Synonyms

cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, hex, jinx, whammy, condemnation, execration, torment, bane, nemesis, scourge, blaspheme, imprecate, swear, anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, maledict, excommunicate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in curse:

cruse, cures, ecrus, sucre

Common word forms

cursed, curser, curses, cursing, cursement

Words from these letters

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