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Meanings of curse in English

Portuguese
palavrão
Catalan
paraulota
Spanish
garabato

Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.

palavrão
Portuguese
maldição
Catalan
maledicció
Spanish
maldición

An evil spell.

maldição
Portuguese
deusa da vingança
Catalan
desgràcia
Spanish
desgracia

Something causing misery or death.

deusa da vingança
Portuguese
maldição
Catalan
condemna
Spanish
condena

An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group.

maldição
Synonyms
Examples for "scourge"
Examples for "scourge"
1
Credit Card Interest Credit cards are a scourge on the family budget.
News.com.au
2
And the Year 2000 problem is proving to be an unavoidable scourge.
The Irish Times
3
Let no one underplay the scourge of Islamophobic, racist, extreme right terrorism.
News.com.au
4
The president and I also discussed the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism.
News.com.au
5
The scourge of typhus in Serbia is a recent and graphic illustration.
Applied Eugenics
1
The Portuguese, however, have proved a nemesis in the last 10 years.
Reuters
2
Somewhere along the way, Sarah has decided Hannah is her arch nemesis.
News.com.au
3
Instead his arch nemesis became a byword for political strength and stability.
News.com.au
4
He never did, ceding the stage, for the moment, to his nemesis.
Reuters
5
If their nemesis was dead, then the Harkonnens no longer needed vengeance.
Sisterhood of Dune
1
The nineteenth century brought us the boon and the bane of industrialism.
A Psychiatric Milestone: Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1...
2
Now their unsold homes are the bane of a sickly housing market.
Reuters
3
It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
4
LATE payment for goods and services is the bane of business life.
The Irish Times
5
The Hall door had been shut against the bane of the night-air.
The Jervaise Comedy
Usage of curse in English
1
Thyestes exalts over the fulfillment of another chapter in the inevitable curse.
Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough'
2
They had got the Nibelungen hoard; and with it the Nibelungen curse.
The Roman and the Teuton / A Series of Lectures delivered before...
3
The curse of militarism may make itself felt even in the school-room.
Prime Ministers and Some Others: A Book of Reminiscences
4
Maybe Drake is trying to direct the curse's power towards the Warriors.
The Guardian
5
The fearful curse of the country, however, is the belief in witchcraft.
The Two Supercargoes; Or, Adventures in Savage Africa
6
He said the curse of the age and the country was superficiality.
Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
7
The curse, is compared to water; the remedy is compared to water.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
8
The great curse of the whole region is the habit of drinking.
The Land of the Kangaroo / Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey...
9
The liar and the murderer are joined together to receive the curse.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
10
Only love can destroy the curse on the Gold of the Gods.
Gold of the Gods
11
It was like one of those old incantations; almost like a curse.
Dust
12
And he cannot deceive me because of the power of the curse.
Twenty-Two Goblins
13
The golf clubs lean up against the wall and curse the weather.
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II
14
Still is the curse heavy upon Khem and the people of Khem.
The World's Desire
15
And the curse shall be on thee till the day of reckoning.
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
16
The curse of religious and political apostasy lay heavy on the land.
Tales and Sketches / Part 3 from Volume V of The Works of John G...