An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.
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Examples for "curse "
1 Thyestes exalts over the fulfillment of another chapter in the inevitable curse .
2 They had got the Nibelungen hoard; and with it the Nibelungen curse .
3 The curse of militarism may make itself felt even in the school-room.
4 Maybe Drake is trying to direct the curse 's power towards the Warriors.
5 The fearful curse of the country, however, is the belief in witchcraft.
1 The words were of his native language, but the malediction was universal.
2 Hear the malediction with which Elisha cursed the insolent and mirthful children.
3 The malediction of this twenty-five-year-old Colonel appeared rather more comic than terrible.
4 They looked like three malignant fates lifting up their hands in malediction .
5 But Ford's rejoinder was the bitter malediction of the defeated industry captain.
1 A muttered imprecation escaped the lips of the watcher on the Drive.
2 Hardly had the abbé gone than Jacques Ferrand uttered a terrible imprecation .
3 The imprecation fell but too surely upon the devoted house of Stuart.
4 He flung the word out angrily, giving it emphasis by an imprecation .
5 Grinaldi turned away, suppressing the bitter imprecation that rose to his lips.
6 His head fell while an angry imprecation was still upon his lips.
7 Mentu interrupted him with a growling imprecation and Hotep's fair face darkened.
8 The words were rushed, emphatic, and incomprehensible, some Bengali curse or imprecation .
9 The subject of this unimaginative but nonetheless stinging imprecation simply nodded.
10 The only answer made by General Abercrombie was a fiercely-uttered imprecation .
11 Bending low, she moved her arms in both imprecation and appeal.
12 An imprecation of a sufficiently emphatic character was the only reply.
13 Holcroft hurled the jug after them with words that sounded like an imprecation .
14 With an impatient imprecation , Fairley darted by her and rushed into the wood.
15 With an angry imprecation , Lyon dashed this letter on the floor.
16 The mob unable to overtake me, still shouted a last imprecation .
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